23 Bible Verses About Feet

  • Proverbs 4:26 tells a son to think about the paths for his feet, and Hebrews 12:13 quotes the line in a passage on discipline.
  • Isaiah 52:7 and Nahum 1:15 both picture a messenger’s feet on the mountains, one announcing Jerusalem’s redemption and the other the destruction of Judah’s enemy; Paul quotes Isaiah in Romans 10:15.
  • God tells Moses to take off his sandals on holy ground in Exodus 3:5, and the same command is given to Joshua in Joshua 5:15.
  • Psalm 8:6 says God put everything under human feet, and Hebrews 2:8 and 1 Corinthians 15:27 apply it to Jesus.
  • In John 13:14 Jesus washes his disciples’ feet and tells them to wash one another’s feet.

In the Bible, feet stand for where a person goes, and so for the way a person lives. Psalm 119:105 calls God’s word “a lamp for my feet,” Proverbs 4:26 tells a son to think about “the paths for your feet,” and Psalm 121:3 promises that the Lord “will not let your foot slip.” Feet also carry messengers (Isaiah 52:7, quoted in Romans 10:15), go bare on holy ground (Exodus 3:5), claim land (Joshua 1:3) and mark rule, as when…

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