What Does The Bible Say About God’s Presence? We see the word presence in our worship music, faith-based books, and prayers. But what does the Bible actually say about the Presence of God? You’ll see that man, Satan, and angels were in the presence of the Lord. Let’s explore this as a word study

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22 Bible Verses About God’s Presence

Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Psalm 51:11 NKJV

Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. Psalm 92:5 NKJV

You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever. Psalm 116:11 NLT

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? Psalm 139:7 NKJV

Surely the righteous shall give thanks to Your name; The upright shall dwell in Your presence. Psalm 140:13 NKJV

 So Cain left the Lord’s presence and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. Genesis 4:16 NLT

Abraham got up early that morning and hurried out to the place where he had stood in the Lord’s presence. Genesis 19:27 NLT

Place the Bread of the Presence on the table to remain before me at all times. Exodus 25:30 NLT

And each evening when he lights the lamps, he must again burn incense in the Lord’s presence. This must be done from generation to generation. Exodus 30:8 NLT

There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you. Deuteronomy 12:7 NIV

And the Lord was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord. 1 Samuel 2:21 NIV

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” 1 Kings 19:11a NIV

Lord, the God of Israel, you are righteous! We are left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, though because of it not one of us can stand in your presence.” Ezra 9:15 NIV

The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord. Job 1:10 NIV

Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. Jonah 1:10 NKJV

 I speak what I have seen in the presence of the Father; therefore, you do what you have heard from your father.” John 8:38 HCSB

Now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with that glory I had with You before the world existed. John 17:5 HCSB

These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from His glorious strength 2 Thessalonians 1:9 HCSB

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us. Hebrews 9:24 HCSB

Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy, Jude 1:24 HCSB

Then I saw the seven angels who stand in the presence of God; seven trumpets were given to them. Revelation 8:2 HCSB

I saw a Great White Throne and the One Enthroned. Nothing could stand before or against the Presence, nothing in Heaven, nothing on earth. And then I saw all the dead, great and small, standing there—before the Throne! And books were opened. Then another book was opened: the Book of Life. The dead were judged by what was written in the books, by the way they had lived. Sea released its dead, Death and Hell turned in their dead. Each man and woman was judged by the way he or she had lived. Then Death and Hell were hurled into Lake Fire. This is the second death—Lake Fire. Anyone whose name was not found inscribed in the Book of Life was hurled into Lake Fire. Revelation 20:11-15 MSG