Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Witness’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Witness’ occurs 98 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Genesis
Genesis 31:47 And Laban called it, ‘Tomb of Witness,’ and Jacob, ‘Pile of Testimony;’ each of them according to the fitness of his own language.Genesis 31:47
Genesis 31:48 And Laban said: “This tomb will be a witness between me and you this day.” (And for this reason, its name has been called Gilead, that is, ‘Tomb of Witness.’)Genesis 31:48
Genesis 31:50 If you afflict my daughters, and if you bring in other wives over them, no one is a witness of our words except God, who understands beforehand.”Genesis 31:50
Genesis 31:52 will be a witness. This tomb,” I say, “and the stone, they are for testimony, in case either I cross beyond it going toward you, or you cross beyond it thinking to harm me.Genesis 31:52
Genesis 39:11 Then it happened, on a certain day, that Joseph entered the house, and he was doing something, without any witnesses.Genesis 39:11
Genesis 44:34 For I cannot return to my father without the boy, lest I appear as a witness to the calamity that will oppress my father.”Genesis 44:34
Number of the word / term Witness in Genesis: 6
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 19:21 he said to him: “Descend, and call the people to witness, lest they might be willing to transgress the limits, so as to see the Lord, and a very great multitude of them might perish.Exodus 19:21
Number of the word / term Witness in Exodus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 5:1 If a soul will have sinned, and heard the voice of one testifying under oath, and he is a witness because either he has seen it himself, or he is aware of it: if he does not reveal it, he shall carry his iniquity.Leviticus 5:1
Number of the word / term Witness in Leviticus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 5:13 will have slept with another man, and if her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and if it cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not caught in the shameful act,Numbers 5:13
Number of the word / term Witness in Numbers: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth as witnesses this day, that you shall quickly perish from the land, which, when you have crossed over the Jordan, you will possess. You will not live in it for a long time; instead, the Lord will destroy you.Deuteronomy 4:26
Deuteronomy 17:6 By the mouth of two or three witnesses, he who is to be put to death shall perish. Let no one be killed with only one person speaking testimony against him.Deuteronomy 17:6
Deuteronomy 17:7 First, the hands of the witnesses shall be upon him who will be put to death, and lastly, the hands of the remainder of the people shall be sent forth. So may you take away the evil from your midst.Deuteronomy 17:7
Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not stand against another, no matter what the sin or outrage may be. For every word shall stand by the mouth of two or three witnesses.Deuteronomy 19:15
Deuteronomy 19:16 If a lying witness will have stood against a man, accusing him of a transgression,Deuteronomy 19:16
Deuteronomy 19:18 And when, after a very diligent examination, they will have found that the false witness had told a lie against his brother,Deuteronomy 19:18
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your offspring may live,Deuteronomy 30:19
Deuteronomy 31:28 Gather to me all those greater by birth throughout your tribes, as well as your teachers, and I will speak these words in their hearing, and I will call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.Deuteronomy 31:28
Number of the word / term Witness in Deuteronomy: 8
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 24:22 And Joshua said to the people, “You yourselves are witnesses, that you have chosen the Lord so that you may serve him.” And they answered, “We are witnesses.”Joshua 24:22
Number of the word / term Witness in Joshua: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Judges
Judges 11:10 They answered him, “The Lord who hears these things is himself the Mediator and the Witness that we shall do what we have promised.”Judges 11:10
Number of the word / term Witness in Judges: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Ruth
Ruth 4:9 And he said to the eldest and to all the people, “You are witnesses this day, that I have taken possession of all that belonged to Elimelech and Chilion and Mahlon, and was bequeathed to Naomi.Ruth 4:9
Ruth 4:10 And Ruth, the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have taken in marriage so as to raise up the name of the deceased in his posterity, so that his name will not be cut off from among his family and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this thing.”Ruth 4:10
Ruth 4:11 All the people who were at the gate, along with the eldest, answered, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make this woman, who enters into your house, like Rachel, and Leah, who built up the house of Israel, so that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrathah, and so that her name may be honored in Bethlehem.Ruth 4:11
Number of the word / term Witness in Ruth: 3
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 12:5 And he said to them, “The Lord is a witness against you, and his Christ is a witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is the witness.”1 Samuel 12:5
Number of the word / term Witness in 1 Samuel: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Job
Job 16:8 My wrinkles bear witness against me, and a liar rises up against my face, contradicting me.Job 16:8
Job 16:19 For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.Job 16:19
Number of the word / term Witness in Job: 2
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 27:12 Do not surrender me to the souls of those who trouble me. For unjust witnesses have risen up against me, and iniquity has lied to itself.Psalm 27:12
Psalm 35:11 Unfair witnesses have risen up, interrogating me about things of which I am ignorant.Psalm 35:11
Psalm 89:37 and, like the moon, it is perfected in eternity, and it is a faithful witness in heaven.Psalm 89:37
Number of the word / term Witness in Psalm: 3
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Proverbs
Proverbs 6:19 a deceitful witness bringing forth lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.Proverbs 6:19
Proverbs 12:17 He is a sign of justice, who speaks what he knows. But whoever deceives is a dishonest witness.Proverbs 12:17
Proverbs 12:19 The lips of truth shall be steadfast forever. But a hasty witness readies a lying tongue.Proverbs 12:19
Proverbs 14:5 A faithful witness will not lie. But a deceitful witness offers a lie.Proverbs 14:5
Proverbs 14:25 A faithful witness frees souls. And the chameleon utters lies.Proverbs 14:25
Proverbs 19:5 A false witness shall not go unpunished. And whoever speaks lies will not escape.Proverbs 19:5
Proverbs 19:9 A false witness shall not go unpunished. And whoever speaks lies will perish.Proverbs 19:9
Proverbs 19:28 An unjust witness ridicules judgment. And the mouth of the impious devours iniquity.Proverbs 19:28
Proverbs 21:28 A lying witness will perish. An obedient man shall speak of victory.Proverbs 21:28
Proverbs 24:28 Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor. And do not mislead anyone with your lips.Proverbs 24:28
Number of the word / term Witness in Proverbs: 10
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 8:2 And I summoned to myself faithful witnesses: Uriah, the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Berechiah.Isaiah 8:2
Isaiah 43:9 All the nations have been assembled together, and the tribes have been collected. Who among you will announce this, and who will cause us to listen to the things that are first? Let them present their witnesses. Let them act justly, and listen, and say: “It is true.”Isaiah 43:9
Isaiah 43:10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and you are my servant, whom I have chosen, so that you may know, and may believe in me, and so that you may understand that I am the same. Before me, there was no god formed, and after me there will be none.Isaiah 43:10
Isaiah 43:12 I have announced, and I have saved. I have caused it to be heard. And there was no stranger among you. You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and I am God.Isaiah 43:12
Isaiah 44:8 Do not be afraid, and do not be disturbed. From the time when I caused you to listen, I also announced it. You are my witnesses. Is there another God beside me, also a Maker, whom I have not known?Isaiah 44:8
Isaiah 44:9 All of those who create idols are nothing, and their most beloved things will not benefit them. These are their witnesses, for they do not see, and they do not understand, so that they might be confounded.Isaiah 44:9
Isaiah 55:4 Behold, I have presented him as a witness to the people, as a commander and instructor to the nations.Isaiah 55:4
Number of the word / term Witness in Isaiah: 7
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 29:23 For they have acted foolishly in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their friends, and they have spoken lying words in my name, which I did not command them. I am the Judge and the Witness, says the Lord.Jeremiah 29:23
Jeremiah 32:10 And I wrote it in a book and signed it, and I summoned witnesses. And I weighed out the silver on a scale.Jeremiah 32:10
Jeremiah 32:12 And I gave the deed of possession to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of Hanamel, the son of my uncle, in the sight of the witnesses who had been recorded in the book of the purchase, and in the sight of all the Jews who were sitting in the atrium of the prison.Jeremiah 32:12
Jeremiah 32:25 So why, O Lord God, are you saying to me: ‘Buy a field with money, and summon witnesses,’ while the city is being given into the hands of the Chaldeans?”Jeremiah 32:25
Jeremiah 32:44 Fields will be bought for money, and deeds will be written and signed, and witnesses will be summoned, in the land of Benjamin and all around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, and in the cities on the mountains, and in the cities on the plains, and in the cities that are toward the south. For I will convert their captivity, says the Lord.”Jeremiah 32:44
Jeremiah 42:5 And they said to Jeremiah: “May the Lord be the witness between us of truth and fidelity, if we do not act according to whatever word the Lord your God will send by you to us.Jeremiah 42:5
Number of the word / term Witness in Jeremiah: 6
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Hosea
Hosea 11:12 Ephraim has besieged me with denials, and the house of Israel with deceit. But Judah went down as a witness before God and the holy ones of faith.Hosea 11:12
Number of the word / term Witness in Hosea: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Micah
Micah 1:2 All peoples, listen. And may the earth and its fullness pay attention. And may the Lord God be a witness to you, the Lord from his holy temple.Micah 1:2
Number of the word / term Witness in Micah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Malachi
Malachi 2:14 And you have said, “What is the reason for this?” It is because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have despised. Yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.Malachi 2:14
Malachi 3:5 And I will approach you in judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers, and adulterers, and perjurers, and those who cheat the hired hand in his wages, the widows and the orphans, and who oppress the traveler, and who have not feared me, says the Lord of hosts.Malachi 3:5
Number of the word / term Witness in Malachi: 2
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 18:16 But if he will not listen you, invite with you one or two more, so that every word may stand by the mouth of two or three witnesses.Matthew 18:16
Matthew 23:31 And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.Matthew 23:31
Matthew 26:60 And they did not find any, even though many false witnesses had come forward. Then, at the very end, two false witnesses came forward,Matthew 26:60
Number of the word / term Witness in Matthew: 3
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Mark
Mark 14:57 And certain ones, rising up, bore false witness against him, saying:Mark 14:57
Number of the word / term Witness in Mark: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Luke
Number of the word / term Witness in Luke: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book John
John 1:7 He arrived as a witness to offer testimony about the Light, so that all would believe through him.John 1:7
John 13:21 When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit. And he bore witness by saying: “Amen, amen, I say to you, that one among you shall betray me.”John 13:21
Number of the word / term Witness in John: 2
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Acts
Acts 1:8 But you shall receive the power of the Holy Spirit, passing over you, and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth.”Acts 1:8
Acts 1:22 beginning from the baptism of John, until the day when he was taken up from us, one of these be made a witness with us of his Resurrection.”Acts 1:22
Acts 2:32 This Jesus, God raised up again, and of this we are all witnesses.Acts 2:32
Acts 3:15 Truly, it was the Author of Life whom you put to death, whom God raised from the dead, to whom we are witnesses.Acts 3:15
Acts 5:32 And we are witnesses of these things, with the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to all who are obedient to him.”Acts 5:32
Acts 6:13 And they set up false witnesses, who said: “This man does not cease to speak words against the holy place and the law.Acts 6:13
Acts 7:58 And driving him out, beyond the city, they stoned him. And witnesses placed their garments beside the feet of a youth, who was called Saul.Acts 7:58
Acts 10:39 And we are witnesses of all that he did in the region of Judea and in Jerusalem, he whom they killed by hanging him on a tree.Acts 10:39
Acts 10:41 not to all the people, but to the witnesses preordained by God, to those of us who ate and drank with him after he rose again from the dead.Acts 10:41
Acts 13:31 And he was seen for many days by those who went up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who even now are his witnesses to the people.Acts 13:31
Acts 20:26 For this reason, I call you as witnesses on this very day: that I am clean from the blood of all.Acts 20:26
Acts 22:5 just as the high priest and all those greater by birth bear witness to me. Having received letters from them to the brothers, I journeyed to Damascus, so that I might lead them bound from there to Jerusalem, so that they might be punished.Acts 22:5
Acts 22:15 For you shall be his witness to all men about those things which you have seen and heard.Acts 22:15
Acts 22:20 And when the blood of your witness Stephen was poured out, I stood nearby and was consenting, and I watched over the garments of those who put him to death.’Acts 22:20
Acts 26:16 But rise up and stand on your feet. For I appeared to you for this reason: so that I may establish you as a minister and a witness concerning the things that you have seen, and concerning the things that I will show to you:Acts 26:16
Number of the word / term Witness in Acts: 15
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Romans
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit by the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I have kept a remembrance of youRomans 1:9
Number of the word / term Witness in Romans: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 15:15 Then, too, we would be found to be false witnesses of God, because we would have given testimony against God, saying that he had raised up Christ, when he had not raised him up, if, indeed, the dead do not rise again.1 Corinthians 15:15
Number of the word / term Witness in 1 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book 2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 1:23 But I call God as a witness to my soul, that I was lenient with you, in that I did not return to Corinth:2 Corinthians 1:23
2 Corinthians 8:3 And I bear witness to them, that they were willing to accept what was in accord with their ability, and even what was beyond their ability.2 Corinthians 8:3
2 Corinthians 13:1 Behold, this is the third time that I am coming to you. By the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word shall stand.2 Corinthians 13:1
Number of the word / term Witness in 2 Corinthians: 3
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Philippians
Philippians 1:8 For God is my witness how, within the heart of Jesus Christ, I long for all of you.Philippians 1:8
Number of the word / term Witness in Philippians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book 1 Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians 2:5 And neither did we, at any time, become flattering in speech, as you know, nor did we seek an opportunity for avarice, as God is witness.1 Thessalonians 2:5
1 Thessalonians 2:10 You are witnesses, as is God, of how holy and just and blameless we were with you who have believed.1 Thessalonians 2:10
1 Thessalonians 2:12 in which we were pleading with you and consoling you, bearing witness, so that you would walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you into his kingdom and glory.1 Thessalonians 2:12
Number of the word / term Witness in 1 Thessalonians: 3
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book 1 Timothy
1 Timothy 5:19 Do not be willing to accept an accusation against a priest, except under two or three witnesses.1 Timothy 5:19
1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you have been called, and make a good profession of faith in the sight of many witnesses.1 Timothy 6:12
Number of the word / term Witness in 1 Timothy: 2
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book 2 Timothy
2 Timothy 2:2 and by the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses. These things encourage faithful men, who shall then be suitable to teach others also.2 Timothy 2:2
Number of the word / term Witness in 2 Timothy: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Hebrews
Hebrews 7:8 And certainly, here, men who receive tithes still die; but there, he bears witness that he lives.Hebrews 7:8
Hebrews 10:28 If someone dies for acting against the law of Moses, and is shown no compassion because of two or three witnesses,Hebrews 10:28
Hebrews 12:1 Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.Hebrews 12:1
Number of the word / term Witness in Hebrews: 3
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book 1 Peter
1 Peter 5:1 Therefore, I beg the elders who are among you, as one who is also an elder and a witness of the Passion of Christ, who also shares in that glory which is to be revealed in the future:1 Peter 5:1
Number of the word / term Witness in 1 Peter: 1
Bible passages with ‘Witness’ in the book Revelation
Revelation 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the leader over the kings of the earth, who has loved us and has washed us from our sins with his blood,Revelation 1:5
Revelation 2:13 I know where you dwell, where the seat of Satan is, and that you hold to my name and have not denied my faith, even in those days when Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.Revelation 2:13
Revelation 3:14 And to the Angel of the Church of Laodicea write: Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, who is the Beginning of the creation of God:Revelation 3:14
Revelation 11:3 And I will present my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.Revelation 11:3
Revelation 22:18 For I call as witnesses all listeners of the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone will have added to these, God will add upon him the afflictions written in this book.Revelation 22:18
Number of the word / term ‘Witness’ in Revelation: 5
These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.
Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 98
