35 Best Bible Verses About Flowers

The Bible has a lot to say about flowers. In fact, the Bible is full of verses that discuss different types of flowers and how they are used in God’s creation. Here are some verses that will help you better understand the biblical perspective on flowers:

There are a number of Bible verses about flowers. In one passage, Isaiah 55:13-14, God promises to “bring forth your seed from the earth; and they shall grow up into a mighty nation and fill the earth. I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall be My people.” Another verse, Psalm 103:15-16, says that God “makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

Bible Verses About Flowers

Luke 12:27 (KJV)

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Matthew 6:28-29 (KJV)

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

1 Corinthians 3:7 (KJV)

So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

Genesis 1:11-12 (KJV)

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Psalm 103:15-16 (KJV)

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Job 14:2 (KJV)

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

1 Kings 6:18 (KJV)

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

Psalm 104:24 (KJV)

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

Hosea 14:5 (KJV)

I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

Isaiah 35:1 (KJV)

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Psalm 23:1-3 (KJV)

The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Song of Solomon 6:2-3 (KJV)

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

Isaiah 58:11 (KJV)

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.

Ezekiel 36:34-36 (KJV)

And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.

Amos 9:14 (KJV)

And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Mark 4:26-29 (KJV)

And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

Isaiah 28:1 (KJV)

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 40:6 (KJV)

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

James 1:10 (KJV)

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Isaiah 5:24 (KJV)

Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Numbers 17:8 (KJV)

And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

Song of Songs 2:12 (KJV)

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

Song of Songs 4:16 (KJV)

Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Song of Songs 6:2 (KJV)

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song of Songs 2:1-2 (KJV)

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Isaiah 18:4-5 (KJV)

For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

1 Peter 1:23-24 (KJV)

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Job 15:31-33 (KJV)

Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence. It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green. 33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Matthew 6:28-30 (KJV)

And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Job 14:1-5 (KJV)

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

James 1:10-11 (KJV)

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Psalm 103:14-15 (KJV)

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Isaiah 28:4 (KJV)

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

1 Peter 1:24 (KJV)

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: