What Does the Bible Say About Lifting Hands?
Here are 14 Bible verses about lifting hands, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.
- #11 Timothy 2:8
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
BSBTherefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
- #2Psalms 63:4
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
BSBSo I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.
- #3Psalms 134:2
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
BSBLift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
- #4Lamentations 3:41
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
BSBLet us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
- #5Psalms 141:2
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
BSBMay my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
- #6Psalms 28:2
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
BSBHear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.
- #7Nehemiah 8:6
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
BSBThen Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, “Amen, Amen!” Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
- #8Psalms 119:48
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
BSBI lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.
- #9Ezra 9:5
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God,
BSBAt the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,
- #10Luke 24:50
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
BSBWhen Jesus had led them out as far as Bethany, He lifted up His hands and blessed them.
- #11Lamentations 2:19
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
BSBArise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
- #121 Kings 8:54
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
BSBNow when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
- #131 Kings 8:22
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
BSBThen Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
- #14Exodus 17:11
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
BSBAs long as Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed; but when he lowered them, Amalek prevailed.
Verse rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY). Scripture: KJV & BSB (public domain).