bones

The 15 most-voted verses about bones, from 8 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22 (BSB)

A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 17:22 (KJV)

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22 (WEB)

The light of the eyes cheers the heart, and good news nourishes the bones.

Proverbs 15:30 (BSB)

The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.

Proverbs 15:30 (KJV)

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart. Good news gives health to the bones.

Proverbs 15:30 (WEB)

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

Psalm 51:8 (BSB)

Make me to hear joy and gladness; [that] the bones [which] thou hast broken may rejoice.

Psalm 51:8 (KJV)

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

Psalm 51:8 (WEB)

A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Proverbs 14:30 (BSB)

A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 14:30 (KJV)

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Proverbs 14:30 (WEB)

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

Proverbs 16:24 (BSB)

Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 16:24 (KJV)

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 16:24 (WEB)

For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 (BSB)

For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12 (WEB)

His bones are tubes of bronze; his limbs are rods of iron.

Job 40:18 (BSB)

His bones [are as] strong pieces of brass; his bones [are] like bars of iron.

Job 40:18 (KJV)

His bones are like tubes of bronze. His limbs are like bars of iron.

Job 40:18 (WEB)

He protects all his bones; not one of them will be broken.

Psalm 34:20 (BSB)

He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

Psalm 34:20 (KJV)

He protects all of his bones. Not one of them is broken.

Psalm 34:20 (WEB)

This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.

Proverbs 3:8 (BSB)

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Proverbs 3:8 (KJV)

It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.

Proverbs 3:8 (WEB)

The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.

Isaiah 58:11 (BSB)

And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Isaiah 58:11 (KJV)

and the LORD will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.

Isaiah 58:11 (WEB)

And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”

Genesis 2:23 (BSB)

And Adam said, This [is] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.

Genesis 2:23 (KJV)

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.”

Genesis 2:23 (WEB)

And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Genesis 50:25 (BSB)

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Genesis 50:25 (KJV)

Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

Genesis 50:25 (WEB)

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”

Exodus 13:19 (BSB)

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

Exodus 13:19 (KJV)

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.”

Exodus 13:19 (WEB)

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:3 (BSB)

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

Psalm 32:3 (KJV)

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:3 (WEB)

Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”

Ezekiel 37:3 (BSB)

And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

Ezekiel 37:3 (KJV)

He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord GOD, you know.”

Ezekiel 37:3 (WEB)

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