24 Bible Verses About Hands



  • Isaiah 49:16 answers Zion’s complaint that the Lord has forgotten her: “I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.”
  • In John 10:28-29 Jesus says no one can snatch his sheep out of his hand or out of his Father’s hand.
  • Jesus’s last words in Luke 23:46 are a line from Psalm 31:5, “Into your hands I commit my spirit.”
  • Psalm 141:2, Psalm 63:4, Lamentations 3:41 and 1 Timothy 2:8 describe lifting the hands in prayer, and Isaiah 1:15 records God refusing hands “full of blood.”
  • Ephesians 4:28 tells a former thief to work with his own hands so that he has something to share with those in need.

The Bible speaks of hands in two directions: God’s hands, which made the world and hold his people, and human hands, which pray, work, give and bless. God tells Zion, “I have engraved you on the palms of my hands” (Isaiah 49:16). Jesus says no one can snatch his sheep out of his hand (John 10:28-29). He touched a man with leprosy and placed his hands on children (Matthew 8:3, Mark 10:16). After the resurrection he showed his hands to…

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