Top 25 Bible Verses About Lifting Hands (NIV)

⁸ I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing.

⁴ I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.

² Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD.

⁴¹ Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:

² May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

² Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help, as I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

⁶ Ezra praised the LORD, the great God; and all the people lifted their hands and responded, "Amen! Amen!" Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

⁴⁸ I lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and I meditate on your decrees.

⁵ Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the LORD my God

⁵⁰ When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.

²² Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven

¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

⁵⁴ When Solomon had finished all these prayers and supplications to the LORD, he rose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.

¹¹ As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning.

⁶ I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

¹⁰ the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on high.

¹⁵ When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you; even if you offer many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood;

³⁸ and when a prayer or plea is made by any of your people Israel-each one aware of the afflictions of his own heart, and spreading out his hands toward this temple-

³³ Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the LORD; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

⁹ my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, O LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

¹³ "Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,

²⁹ Moses replied, "When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the LORD. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the LORD's.

²⁹ and when a prayer or plea is made by any of your people Israel-each one aware of his afflictions and pains, and spreading out his hands toward this temple- ³⁰ then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Forgive, and deal with each man according to all he does, since you know his heart (for you alone know the hearts of men),

³¹ Envoys will come from Egypt; Cush will submit herself to God.

²² Then Aaron lifted his hands toward the people and blessed them. And having sacrificed the sin offering, the burnt offering and the fellowship offering, he stepped down.