What Does the Bible Say About Herbs?

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 66 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 33 helpful votes

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:29-31 ESV / 27 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Ezekiel 47:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

John 19:29-30 ESV / 21 helpful votes

A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Exodus 12:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Numbers 9:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes

In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they shall keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exodus 12:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Hebrews 6:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For land that has drunk the rain that often falls on it, and produces a crop useful to those for whose sake it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God.

Isaiah 38:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may recover.”

Psalm 104:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Kings 4:33 ESV / 11 helpful votes

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Revelation 22:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Numbers 11:7-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that of bdellium. The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. When the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it.

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Daniel 1:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Revelation 22:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, with all choice spices—

1 Timothy 4:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,

John 3:16-17 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. 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.

1 Kings 21:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And after this Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.”

Numbers 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

Exodus 30:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Take sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, sweet spices with pure frankincense (of each shall there be an equal part),

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Genesis 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue.

John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You cause the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth and wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.

Exodus 30:22-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane, and 500 of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hin of olive oil. And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil. With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony, ...

Genesis 3:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

44 Bible Verses about Herbs

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 66 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29-31 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 47:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 19:29-30 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 12:22 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 9:11 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 12:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 6:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 38:21 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Kings 4:33 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 11:7-9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 4:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 4:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Kings 21:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 11:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 30:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 30:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 30:22-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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