What does the Bible say about winter?
Winter is a serene season that invites reflection on faith, life, and the Lord. It’s a time for cherished moments with family, rest, and joyful days. Let these scriptures envelop you like a warm scarf, guiding you through the chilly days with steadfast faith.
Psalm 74:17 (ESV)
“You have set all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and winter.”
Genesis 8:22 (NIV)
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
Job 37:6 (NKJV)
“For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’; likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength.”
Isaiah 55:10 (NASB)
“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it produce and sprout, and providing seed to the sower and bread to the eater.”
Proverbs 20:4 (KJV)
“The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.”
Matthew 24:20 (NLT)
“And pray that your flight will not be in winter or on a Sabbath.”
Job 38:29-30 (Holman CSB)
“From whose womb did the ice come? Who gave birth to the frost from heaven when the waters become as hard as stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen?”
Psalm 147:16-17 (ESV)
“He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?”
Zechariah 14:8 (NIV)
“On that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it east to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.”
Job 6:16 (NASB)
“Which are darkened because of ice, and into which the snow melts.”
Proverbs 31:21 (NKJV)
“She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household is clothed with scarlet.”
John 10:22-23 (KJV)
“And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.”
Psalm 51:7 (ESV)
“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.”
Isaiah 1:18 (NIV)
“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
Job 37:9-10 (NLT)
“The stormy wind comes from its chamber, and the driving winds bring the cold. God’s breath sends the ice, freezing wide expanses of water.”
Daniel 7:9 (NASB)
“I kept looking until thrones were set up, and the Ancient of Days took His seat; His vesture was like white snow and the hair of His head like pure wool.”
Proverbs 25:13 (NKJV)
“Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him, for he refreshes the soul of his masters.”
Exodus 4:6 (ESV)
“Again, the Lord said to him, ‘Put your hand inside your cloak.’ And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.”
Bible Verses About FireRevelation 1:14 (NIV)
“The hair on his head was white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.”
2 Samuel 23:20 (KJV)
“And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.”
Psalm 148:8 (NASB)
“Fire and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling His word.”
Job 24:7 (NKJV)
“They spend the night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.”
Jeremiah 18:14 (ESV)
“Does the snow of Lebanon leave the crags of Sirion? Do the mountain waters run dry, the cold flowing streams?”
Proverbs 26:1 (NIV)
“Like snow in summer or rain in harvest, honor is not fitting for a fool.”
Mark 13:18 (NLT)
“Pray that this will not take place in winter.”
Psalm 147:8 (Holman CSB)
“Who covers the heavens with clouds, prepares rain for the earth, and causes grass to grow on the hills.”
Job 37:5-6 (KJV)
“God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.”
Isaiah 28:17 (NASB)
“I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level; then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters will overflow the secret place.”
Psalm 68:14 (NKJV)
“When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Zalmon.”
Lamentations 4:7 (ESV)
“Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than coral, the beauty of their form was like sapphire.”
Job 9:30 (NIV)
“Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder, you would plunge me into a slime pit so that my own clothes would abhor me.”
Psalm 107:29 (NLT)
“He stilled the storm to a whisper; the waves of the sea were hushed.”
Proverbs 30:4 (KJV)
“Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son’s name, if thou canst tell?”
Isaiah 29:6 (NASB)
“From the Lord of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.”
Job 38:22 (NKJV)
“Have you entered the treasury of snow, or have you seen the treasury of hail?”
Psalm 135:7 (ESV)
“He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.”
Haggai 2:17 (NIV)
“I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
Exodus 9:18 (NLT)
“So tomorrow at this time I will send a hailstorm more devastating than any in all the history of Egypt.”
Psalm 78:47 (KJV)
“He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.”
Isaiah 32:19 (NASB)
“And it will hail when the forest comes down, and the city will be utterly laid low.”
Job 37:13 (ESV)
“Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.”
Psalm 105:32 (NIV)
“He gave them hail for rain, and lightning that flashed through their land.”
Proverbs 28:3 (NKJV)
“A poor man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no food.”
Revelation 16:21 (NLT)
“There was a terrible hailstorm, and hailstones weighing as much as seventy-five pounds fell from the sky onto the people below. They cursed God because of the terrible plague of the hailstorm.”
Isaiah 25:4 (KJV)
“For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.”
Job 36:27-28 (NASB)
“For He draws up the drops of water, they distill rain from the mist, which the clouds pour down, they drip upon man abundantly.”
Psalm 18:12 (ESV)
“Out of the brightness before him hailstones and coals of fire broke through his clouds.”
Ezekiel 13:11 (NIV)
“Therefore tell those who cover it with whitewash that it is going to fall. Rain will come in torrents, and I will send hailstones hurtling down, and violent winds will burst forth.”
Psalm 147:5 (NLT)
“How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!”
Isaiah 30:30 (NKJV)
“And the Lord will cause His voice of authority to be heard, and the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger, and in the flame of a consuming fire in cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.”
Job 38:26 (KJV)
“To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man.”
Psalm 65:10 (NASB)
“You water its furrows abundantly, you settle its ridges, you soften it with showers, you bless its growth.”
Jeremiah 10:13 (ESV)
“When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.”
Proverbs 16:15 (NIV)
“When a king’s face brightens, it means life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.”
Psalm 29:3 (NLT)
“The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord thunders over the mighty waters.”
Isaiah 45:8 (NKJV)
“Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.”
Job 28:26 (KJV)
“When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder.”
Psalm 72:6 (NASB)
“May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.”
Hosea 6:3 (ESV)
“Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Deuteronomy 11:14 (NIV)
“Then I will send rain on your land in its season, both autumn and spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil.”