19 Bible Verses About The Beach
The beach has always been one of my favorite places to pray and spend time with God.
Looking out at the endless ocean has always been a great reminder of how big God is, and how much He loves us. In the Bible, the beach and sand are mentioned numerous times.
Sand is often used as a comparison to a huge amount of people, things, armies, and God’s thoughts towards us. You can imagine how long it would take to count individual pieces of sand. Even a small handful of sand is impossible to count!
In the New Testament, we see a few times where Jesus is teaching His disciples and crowds of people on the beach and shores of the Sea of Galilee.
I hope you enjoy this list of Bible verses about the beach.
“So when they got out on the beach, they saw a charcoal fire set up and fish on it cooking, and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have just caught.” So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net to land, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty-three [of them]; and although there were so many, the net was not torn. Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast.’ None of the disciples dared to ask Him, ‘Who are You?’ They knew [without any doubt] that it was the Lord.”
John 21:9-12 AMP
“Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful! God, I’ll never comprehend them! I couldn’t even begin to count them— any more than I could count the sand of the sea.”
Psalm 139:17-18 MSG
“I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,”
Genesis 22:17 NIV
“When our days there were ended, we left and started on our journey, while they all, with wives and children, escorted us until we were out of the city. After kneeling down on the beach and praying, we said farewell to one another.”
Acts 21:5 NASB
“And You [Lord] said, ‘I will certainly make you prosper and make your descendants as [numerous as] the sand of the sea, which is too great to be counted.’”
Genesis 32:12 AMP
“Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.”
Genesis 41:48-49 NIV
“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand.”
Matthew 7:26 NKJV
“They will summon peoples to the mountain and there offer the sacrifices of the righteous; they will feast on the abundance of the seas, on the treasures hidden in the sand.”
Deuteronomy 33:19 NIV
“All these kings came out to fight. Their combined armies formed a vast horde. And with all their horses and chariots, they covered the landscape like the sand on the seashore.”
Joshua 11:4 NLT
“Now the Philistines gathered to fight against Israel, 30,000 chariots and 6,000 horsemen, and troops in multitude, like sand on the seashore.” 1 Samuel 13:5 AMP
“So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba—as numerous as the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, with you yourself leading them into battle.” 2 Samuel 17:11 NIV
“The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore; they ate, they drank and they were happy.”
1 Kings 4:20 NIV
“If my misery could be weighed and my troubles be put on the scales, they would outweigh all the sands of the sea. That is why I spoke impulsively.”
Job 6:3 NLT
“Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
Hosea 1:10 NIV
“When it was day, they did not recognize the land; but they observed a bay with a beach, onto which they planned to run the ship if possible.”
Acts 27:39 NKJV
“Morning was already breaking when Jesus came to the beach and stood there. However, the disciples did not know that it was Jesus.”
John 21:4 AMPC
“Have you no respect for me? Why don’t you tremble in my presence? I, the Lord, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross. The waves may toss and roar, but they can never pass the boundaries I set.”
Jeremiah 5:22 NLT
“And large crowds gathered to Him, so He got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd was standing on the beach.”
Matthew 13:2 NASB
“God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore.”
1 Kings 4:29 NIV