The word in Scripture

Fire in the Bible

The word fire appears 549 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Fire purifies, judges, and marks God's holy presence. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What fire means in the Bible

Fire purifies, judges, and marks God's holy presence.

Where the word fire appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word fire appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.”Psalms 50:3

“As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;”Psalms 83:14

“Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.”Isaiah 64:11

“For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.”Isaiah 66:16

“And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.”Luke 22:55

“If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.”John 15:6

“As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.”John 21:9

“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,”Hebrews 12:18