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Bible Verses About Fish

18 verses · 6 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

  2. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

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

  4. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; with all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.

  5. Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

  6. These may ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may ye eat.

  7. And all that have not 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 unto you,

  8. and they shall be an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and their carcasses ye shall have in abomination.

  9. Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination unto you.

  10. These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat;

  11. and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.

  12. And it shall come to pass, that every living creature which swarmeth, in every place whither the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come thither, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live whithersoever the river cometh.

  13. And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto 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.

  14. So when they got out upon the land, they see a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.

  15. Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now taken.

  16. Simon Peter therefore went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, the net was not rent.

  17. Jesus saith unto them, Come and break your fast. And none of the disciples durst inquire of him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.

  18. Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth them, and the fish likewise.