What Does the Bible Say About Teeth?

Song of Solomon 4:2 ESV / 74 helpful votes

Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young.

Psalm 81:10 ESV / 58 helpful votes

I am the Lord your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Matthew 25:30 ESV / 37 helpful votes

And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Psalm 37:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes

The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him,

Psalm 3:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.

Amos 4:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.

Isaiah 41:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Behold, I make of you a threshing sledge, new, sharp, and having teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them, and you shall make the hills like chaff;

Matthew 22:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Proverbs 10:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Mark 9:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams and grinds his teeth and becomes rigid. So I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they were not able.”

Matthew 8:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes

While the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Psalm 112:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked will perish!

Job 16:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes

He has torn me in his wrath and hated me; he has gnashed his teeth at me; my adversary sharpens his eyes against me.

Acts 7:54 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him.

Psalm 35:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Like profane mockers at a feast, they gnash at me with their teeth.

Psalm 1:1-3:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

Matthew 24:51 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:42 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Ezekiel 18:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge’?

Song of Solomon 6:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young.

Galatians 5:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Isaiah 13:12-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the Lord of hosts in the day of his fierce anger. And like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with none to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land. Whoever is found will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall by the sword.

1 John 4:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already.

Luke 13:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.

Matthew 13:41-42 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Joel 1:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and beyond number; its teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.

Lamentations 2:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have swallowed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Ecclesiastes 12:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

In the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed,

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Lamentations 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He has made my teeth grind on gravel, and made me cower in ashes;

Psalm 58:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

O God, break the teeth in their mouths; tear out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord!

Proverbs 25:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

Job 19:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes

My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Job 4:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The roar of the lion, the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions are broken.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 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.

Daniel 7:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And behold, another beast, a second one, like a bear. It was raised up on one side. It had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, ‘Arise, devour much flesh.’

Psalm 124:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Blessed be the Lord, who has not given us as prey to their teeth!

Psalm 58:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Miktam of David. Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods? Do you judge the children of man uprightly? No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies. They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear, so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter. ...

Psalm 57:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Job 29:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I broke the fangs of the unrighteous and made him drop his prey from his teeth.

James 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Matthew 13:50 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

Proverbs 30:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

There are those whose teeth are swords, whose fangs are knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, the needy from among mankind.

Job 41:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

Numbers 11:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

While the meat was yet between their teeth, before it was consumed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck down the people with a very great plague.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Matthew 13:47-50 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind. When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Zechariah 9:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will take away its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth; it too shall be a remnant for our God; it shall be like a clan in Judah, and Ekron shall be like the Jebusites.

Daniel 7:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Then I desired to know the truth about the fourth beast, which was different from all the rest, exceedingly terrifying, with its teeth of iron and claws of bronze, and which devoured and broke in pieces and stamped what was left with its feet,

Jeremiah 31:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

Revelation 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Matthew 22:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.

Genesis 49:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

59 Bible Verses about Teeth

Song of Solomon 4:2 ESV / 74 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 81:10 ESV / 58 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:30 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 37:12 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 3:7 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Amos 4:6 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:15 ESV / 31 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 22:13 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 10:26 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 9:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 8:12 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 112:10 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 16:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 7:54 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 35:16 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 1:1-3:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:51 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:42 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 18:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 6:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:15 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 13:12-15 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 13:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:41-42 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joel 1:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Lamentations 2:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 12:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Lamentations 3:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 58:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 25:19 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 19:20 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 4:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 7:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 124:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 58:1-11 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 57:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 29:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:50 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 12:36 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 30:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 41:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 11:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:47-50 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Zechariah 9:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 7:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 31:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 9:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 22:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 49:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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