The word in Scripture

Sweat in the Bible

The word sweat appears 3 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Sweat is the toil of a fallen world, and the agony of the garden. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What sweat means in the Bible

Sweat is the toil of a fallen world, and the agony of the garden.

Where the word sweat appears

Here is every passage where the word sweat appears, in the words of the King James Bible:

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”Genesis 3:19

“They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.”Ezekiel 44:18

“And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”Luke 22:44