The word in Scripture

Glory in the Bible

The word glory appears 402 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Glory is the weight and radiance of God's presence and worth. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What glory means in the Bible

Glory is the weight and radiance of God's presence and worth.

Where the word glory appears

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

“Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.”Psalms 24:10

“Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.”Psalms 115:1

“Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.”Isaiah 62:3

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”John 1:14

“And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”John 17:5

“For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?”Romans 3:7

“And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,”Romans 9:23

“That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;”Ephesians 3:16