Bible Verses About Lifting Hands

“Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.”

“So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.”

“Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!”

“May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.”

“Hear my cry for mercy when I call to You for help, when I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.”

“Then 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.”

“I lift up my hands to Your commandments, which I love, and I meditate on Your statutes.”

“When Jesus had led them out as far as Bethany, He lifted up His hands and blessed them.”

“Arise, 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.”

“As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed; but when he lowered them, Amalek prevailed.”

“Now 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.”

“I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah”

“My eyes grow dim with grief. I call to You daily, O LORD; I spread out my hands to You.”

“When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.”

“The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.”

“Then Moses departed from Pharaoh, went out of the city, and spread out his hands to the LORD. The thunder and hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.”

“Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.”

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

“Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having made the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offering, he stepped down.”

“Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.”

“For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.”

“And He took the children in His arms, placed His hands on them, and blessed them.”

“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.”

“For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child — the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

“At sunset, all who were ill with various diseases were brought to Jesus, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them.”

“And after they had fasted and prayed, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.”

“They presented these seven to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.”

“Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.”

“Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.”

“May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!”

“Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.”

“You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.”

“And as for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.”

“Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.”

“In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.”

“When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”

“It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.[’]”

“And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”

“You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them up.”

“Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.”

“All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

“There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?”

“God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt— on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”

“This is what the Lord GOD says: “Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations, and raise My banner to the peoples. They will bring your sons in their arms and carry your daughters on their shoulders.”

“First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be offered for everyone—”

“After the crowd had been put outside, Jesus went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.”

“A Psalm of David. I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You. May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.”

“Of David. To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.”

“And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke in tongues and prophesied.”