Hands

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

When Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed. When he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. — read the full passage →

For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; neither his ear heavy, that it can’t hear:

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

God worked special miracles by the hands of Paul,

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.

He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? — read the full passage →

Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

Lay hands hastily on no one, neither be a participant in other men’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.

The hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

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

He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.

See my hands and my feet, that it is truly me. Touch me and see, for a spirit doesn’t have flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we all are the work of your hand.

Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

“Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

When Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with other languages and prophesied.

Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

You shall present the Levites before Yahweh. The children of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Being moved with compassion, he stretched out his hand, and touched him, and said to him, “I want to. Be made clean.”

“You shall bring the bull before the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly. — read the full passage →

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.

If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

You give to them; they gather. You open your hand; they are satisfied with good.

Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

“Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened from the work, that it not be done.” But now, strengthen my hands.

They gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

You shall surely give, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Yahweh’s word came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault. — read the full passage →

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Set up a banner on the bare mountain! Lift up your voice to them! Wave your hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

When he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. He greeted him, and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” Jehonadab answered, “It is.” “If it is, give me your hand.” He gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

He shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting: and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle the blood around on the altar.

He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

but because Yahweh loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, Yahweh has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;