871 verses about Soul

Precious in Yahweh’s sight is the death of his saints.

My soul is consumed with longing for your ordinances at all times.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

My soul is weary with sorrow: strengthen me according to your word.

My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.

I am afflicted very much. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your word.

My soul is continually in my hand, yet I won’t forget your law.

Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.

My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

In the day that I called, you answered me. You encouraged me with strength in my soul.

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.

Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.

Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh, my soul.

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!

For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to go hungry, but he thrusts away the desire of the wicked.

The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.

The liberal soul shall be made fat. He who waters shall be watered also himself.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil.

The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger.

A truthful witness saves souls, but a false witness is deceitful.

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

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. He who keeps his way preserves his soul.

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

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

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the departed spirits.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.

lest you learn his ways, and ensnare your soul.

Punish him with the rod, and save his soul from Sheol.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.

Like cold water to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.

Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

which my soul still seeks; but I have not found. I have found one man among a thousand; but I have not found a woman among all those.