100 Bible Verses about Colors Of The Rainbow Meaning

Revelation 6:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.

Revelation 4:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.

Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Proverbs 31:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet.

Job 30:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes

My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.

Revelation 12:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.

Matthew 17:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

Zechariah 6:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The first chariot had red horses, the second black horses,

Lamentations 4:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now their face is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

Ecclesiastes 9:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head.

Psalm 68:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.

Job 8:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden.

Revelation 20:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

Revelation 17:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.

Revelation 15:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.

Revelation 10:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.

Revelation 6:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And I looked, and behold, a white horse! And its rider had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

Luke 23:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

Matthew 27:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,

Daniel 7:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire.

Ezekiel 1:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.

Ezekiel 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal.

Psalm 52:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.

Psalm 23:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

Esther 8:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

Esther 1:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and precious stones.

2 Chronicles 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So now send me a man skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, trained also in engraving, to be with the skilled workers who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

2 Samuel 1:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.

Judges 8:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.

Exodus 27:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For the gate of the court there shall be a screen twenty cubits long, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework. It shall have four pillars and with them four bases.

Exodus 26:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you shall make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Exodus 25:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair,

Exodus 16:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now the house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

Genesis 25:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The first came out red, all his body like a hairy cloak, so they called his name Esau.

Revelation 19:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.

Revelation 19:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.

Revelation 19:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure”— for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

Revelation 18:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!

Revelation 17:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.

Revelation 8:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

Revelation 7:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I said to him, “Sir, you know.” And he said to me, “These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.

Jude 1:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

James 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.

1 Corinthians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—

Luke 16:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

Mark 15:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him.

Mark 9:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.

Daniel 12:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.

Daniel 11:35 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And some of the wise shall stumble, so that they may be refined, purified, and made white, until the time of the end, for it still awaits the appointed time.

Jeremiah 14:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.

Jeremiah 8:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me.

Song of Solomon 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.

Song of Solomon 1:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green;

2 Chronicles 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he made the veil of blue and purple and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and he worked cherubim on it.

Joshua 2:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.

Numbers 19:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“This is the statute of the law that the Lord has commanded: Tell the people of Israel to bring you a red heifer without defect, in which there is no blemish, and on which a yoke has never come.

Genesis 49:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.

Genesis 42:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But he said, “My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he is the only one left. If harm should happen to him on the journey that you are to make, you would bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.”

Revelation 22:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

Revelation 21:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.

Revelation 6:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And out came another horse, bright red. Its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people should slay one another, and he was given a great sword.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Acts 5:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree.

John 20:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.

John 19:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.

John 14:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 4:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

John 1:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Luke 15:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

Luke 9:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white.

Mark 15:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him.

Matthew 28:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

Matthew 5:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.

Zechariah 1:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“I saw in the night, and behold, a man riding on a red horse! He was standing among the myrtle trees in the glen, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

Joel 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

Daniel 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The king called loudly to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the astrologers. The king declared to the wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this writing, and shows me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around his neck and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.”

Ezekiel 23:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Clothed in purple, governors and commanders, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

Ezekiel 1:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.

Lamentations 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Lamentations 4:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Those who once feasted on delicacies perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple embrace ash heaps.

Jeremiah 10:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.

Jeremiah 4:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For this the earth shall mourn, and the heavens above be dark; for I have spoken; I have purposed; I have not relented, nor will I turn back.”

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 34:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it.

Song of Solomon 5:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

Song of Solomon 1:5-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!

Proverbs 31:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Proverbs 23:31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

Proverbs 20:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

Proverbs 7:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.

Psalm 107:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

Psalm 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The words of the Lord are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.

Psalm 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in the fear of you.

2 Chronicles 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.

Suggest a Verse


Visit the Bible online to search for words if you don’t know the specific passage your’re looking for.