Bible Verses About Blacks

“As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and they put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.”

“I am dark, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.”

“Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen ( who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch ), and Saul.”

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good — you who are accustomed to doing evil.”

“Do not stare because I am dark, for the sun has gazed upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me a keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have neglected.”

“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?”

“My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.”

“His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.”

“Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.”

“The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”

“They are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever.”

“His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.”

“So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.”

“There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.”

“The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.”