What does the Bible say about cold?
Where are you in your walk with Christ? Are you hot or cold? The Bible uses ‘cold’ to describe spiritual states. A cold heart rejects God, avoiding prayer and the pursuit of His presence. That’s a place you don’t want to be. If you find yourself there, I urge you to repent and embrace God’s grace. Begin seeking Him again, cultivating a habit of praise. Remove the obstacles hindering your relationship with Him and establish a healthy daily practice of devotion. Jesus Christ is worthy of your wholehearted pursuit. Leonard Ravenhill once asked, ‘Is what you’re living for worth dying for?’ Reflect on that.
Proverbs 25:25 (NIV) – “Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.”
Job 37:9 (ESV) – “From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.”
Matthew 24:12 (NKJV) – “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.”
Psalm 147:17 (NASB) – “He casts forth His ice as fragments; who can stand before His cold?”
Genesis 8:22 (KJV) – “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
Revelation 3:15 (NLT) – “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other!”
Job 24:7 (Holman) – “They spend the night naked, without clothing, and have no covering against the cold.”
Proverbs 20:4 (NIV) – “Sluggards do not plow in season; so at harvest time they look but find nothing.”
John 18:18 (NKJV) – “Now the servants and officers who had made a fire of coals stood there, for it was cold, and they warmed themselves.”
Psalm 78:47 (ESV) – “He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.”
Nahum 3:17 (NASB) – “Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers settling in the stone walls on a cold day.”
Matthew 10:42 (KJV) – “And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.”
Isaiah 25:4 (NLT) – “But you are a tower of refuge to the poor, O Lord, a refuge from the storm and a shade from the heat.”
Job 38:29 (Holman) – “From whose womb does the ice come? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?”
Ecclesiastes 4:11 (NIV) – “Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?”
Psalm 148:8 (NKJV) – “Fire and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling His word.”
Job 6:16 (ESV) – “Which are turbid because of ice and into which the snow melts.”
Exodus 9:24 (NASB) – “So there was hail, and fire flashing continually in the midst of it, heavier than any hail ever seen in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.”
Mark 9:49 (KJV) – “For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.”
Proverbs 31:21 (NLT) – “She has no fear of winter for her household, for everyone has warm clothes.”
Zechariah 14:6 (Holman) – “On that day there will be no light; the sunlight and moonlight will diminish.”
Jeremiah 36:22 (NIV) – “It was the ninth month and the king was sitting in the winter apartment, with a fire burning in the firepot in front of him.”
Psalm 107:25 (NKJV) – “For He commands and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of the sea.”
Job 37:6 (ESV) – “For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, His mighty downpour.”
Genesis 31:40 (NASB) – “There I was! By day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.”
Luke 22:55 (KJV) – “And when they had kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and were set down together, Peter sat down among them.”
Isaiah 44:16 (NLT) – “He burns part of the tree to roast his meat and to keep himself warm. He says, ‘Ah, that fire feels good.’”
Daniel 3:22 (Holman) – “Because the king’s command was urgent and the furnace extremely hot, the raging flames killed the men who carried Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego up.”
Proverbs 25:13 (NIV) – “Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him; he refreshes the spirit of his master.”
Psalm 74:17 (NKJV) – “You have set all the borders of the earth; You have made summer and winter.”
Job 38:30 (ESV) – “The waters become hard like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen.”
2 Timothy 4:21 (NASB) – “Make every effort to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, also Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.”
Acts 28:2 (KJV) – “And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.”
Isaiah 28:2 (NLT) – “See, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; like a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction, like a storm of mighty overflowing waters, He casts down to the earth with His hand.”
Haggai 1:6 (Holman) – “You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm.”
Proverbs 25:20 (NIV) – “Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar poured on a wound, is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.”
Psalm 147:16 (NKJV) – “He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes.”
Job 37:10 (ESV) – “By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.”
Exodus 9:18 (NASB) – “Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.”
John 3:8 (KJV) – “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”
Isaiah 55:10 (NLT) – “The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry.”
Amos 4:7 (Holman) – “I also withheld the rain from you while there were still three months until harvest. I sent rain on one city but no rain on another.”
Psalm 135:7 (NIV) – “He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth; he sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.”
Job 9:9 (NKJV) – “He made the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.”
Jeremiah 18:17 (ESV) – “Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.”
Leviticus 26:4 (NASB) – “Then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.”
Matthew 7:25 (KJV) – “And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”
Isaiah 30:30 (NLT) – “And the Lord will make his majestic voice heard. He will display the strength of his mighty arm. It will descend with devouring flames, with cloudbursts, thunderstorms, and huge hailstones.”
Ezekiel 13:11 (Holman) – “Tell those who plaster it with whitewash that it will fall! Torrential rain will come, and I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will be released.”
Psalm 104:4 (NIV) – “He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants.”
