What Does the Bible Say About Superheroes?

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.

Psalm 94:16-17 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers? If the Lord had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

2 Timothy 4:17-18 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Corinthians 2:4-5 ESV / 16 helpful votes

And my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Proverbs 21:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

John 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 11 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.

John 12:43 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

Amos 5:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Isaiah 41:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment. Who stirred up one from the east whom victory meets at every step? He gives up nations before him, so that he tramples kings underfoot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow. He pursues them and passes on safely, by paths his feet have not trod. Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he. The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come. ...

Psalm 97:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Clouds and thick darkness are all around him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Psalm 37:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

James 5:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Hebrews 5:8-6:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered. And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, being designated by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, ...

2 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As for you, brothers, do not grow weary in doing good.

Matthew 12:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Amos 5:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hate evil, and love good, and establish justice in the gate; it may be that the Lord, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.

Job 5:12-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end. They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night. But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. ...

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

1 Peter 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?

James 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.

Proverbs 24:24-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,” will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations, but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them.

Proverbs 18:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice.

Proverbs 16:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

Proverbs 11:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.

Psalm 112:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.

Psalm 103:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

Psalm 37:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalm 34:17-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken. Affliction will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be condemned. ...

Job 8:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?

Deuteronomy 28:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before you. They shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.

Deuteronomy 16:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Numbers 10:1-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp. And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out. ...

Exodus 33:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”

Genesis 39:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, and he was in the house of his Egyptian master. His master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord caused all that he did to succeed in his hands. So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him, and he made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had. From the time that he made him overseer in his house and over all that he had, the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; the blessing of the Lord was on all that he had, in house and field. ...

Genesis 11:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.” And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. ...

43 Bible Verses about Superheroes

Isaiah 1:17 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 94:16-17 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 4:17-18 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:4-5 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 21:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Micah 6:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 6:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 12:43 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Amos 5:24 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 97:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 5:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 5:8-6:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 3:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 12:40 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Amos 5:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 5:12-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 29:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 24:24-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 18:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 11:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 112:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 34:17-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 8:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 28:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 16:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 10:1-36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 33:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 39:1-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 11:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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