FISH

Passages on this topic · 51

• Genesis 1:20

  God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

• Genesis 1:21

  God created the large sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

• Genesis 1:22

  God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

• Genesis 9:2

  The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that moves along the ground, and all the fish of the sea, are delivered into your hand.

• Genesis 9:3

  Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

• Leviticus 11:9

  “‘These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.

• Leviticus 11:10

  All that don’t have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,

• Leviticus 11:11

  and you detest them. You shall not eat of their meat, and you shall detest their carcasses.

• Leviticus 11:12

  Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.

• Deuteronomy 14:9

  These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales may you eat.

• Deuteronomy 14:10

  You shall not eat whatever doesn’t have fins and scales. It is unclean to you.

• Nehemiah 13:16

  Some men of Tyre also lived there, who brought in fish and all kinds of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

• Job 7:4

  When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

• Job 41:7

  Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

• Ecclesiastes 9:12

  For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

• Isaiah 19:8

  The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

• Isaiah 19:10

  The pillars will be broken in pieces. All those who work for hire will be grieved in soul.

• Ezekiel 47:9

  It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters have come there, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.

• Ezekiel 47:10

  It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

• Amos 4:2

  The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

• Jonah 1:17

  Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

• Matthew 12:40

  For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

• Matthew 14:19

  He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.

• Matthew 15:36

  and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

• Matthew 17:27

  But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

• Luke 5:4

  When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep, and let down your nets for a catch.”

• Luke 5:5

  Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

• Luke 5:6

  When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.

• Luke 5:7

  They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

• Luke 9:3

  He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey — neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.

• Luke 9:4

  Into whatever house you enter, stay there, and depart from there.

• Luke 9:5

  As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

• Luke 9:6

  They departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the Good News, and healing everywhere.

• Luke 9:7

  Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

• Luke 9:8

  and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.

• Luke 9:9

  Herod said, “John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.

• Luke 9:10

  The apostles, when they had returned, told him what things they had done. He took them, and withdrew apart to a deserted place of a city called Bethsaida.

• Luke 9:11

  But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of God’s Kingdom, and he cured those who needed healing.

• Luke 9:12

  The day began to wear away; and the twelve came, and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

• Luke 9:13

  But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

• Luke 9:14

  For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

• Luke 9:15

  They did so, and made them all sit down.

• Luke 9:16

  He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

• Luke 9:17

  They ate, and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

• Luke 24:42

  They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.

• John 21:6

  He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” They cast it therefore, and now they weren’t able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.

• John 21:9

  So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.

• John 21:10

  Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.”

• John 21:11

  Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many, the net wasn’t torn.

• John 21:12

  Jesus said to them, “Come and eat breakfast.” None of the disciples dared inquire of him, “Who are you?” knowing that it was the Lord.

• John 21:13

  Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.