Angels have always captured our imagination as divine messengers between heaven and earth. In the Bible, they serve as protectors, messengers, and guides, each appearance rich with meaning. This collection of Bible verses about angels offers a closer look at angels and the comfort they bring to believers. Whether you’re seeking inspiration or a deeper understanding, these verses invite you to explore their heavenly roles and the hope they weave throughout the Scriptures. 

Angels and Guidance

• Genesis 24:7 – “The Lord, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.”
• Numbers 20:16 – “But when we cried out to the Lord, he heard our cry and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt.”
• Judges 2:1 – “The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, ‘I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors.'”
• 1 Kings 19:5 – “Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, ‘Get up and eat.'”
• Psalms 91:11 – “For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.”
• Acts 5:19 – “But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out.”
• Acts 10:3 – “One day at about three in the afternoon he had a vision. He distinctly saw an angel of God, who came to him and said, ‘Cornelius!'”

Angels and Protection

• Genesis 48:16 – “The angel who has delivered me from all harm—may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly on the earth.”
• Exodus 14:19 – “Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them.”
• 2 Kings 6:17 – “And Elisha prayed, ‘Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.’ Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.”
• Psalms 34:7 – “The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them.”
• Daniel 3:28 – “Then Nebuchadnezzar said, ‘Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants! They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.'”
• Daniel 6:22 – “My God sent his angel, and he shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”
• Matthew 4:6 – “‘If you are the Son of God,’ he said, ‘throw yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’'”
• Luke 4:10 – “For it is written: ‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully.'”

Angels and Worship

• Luke 2:13-14 – “Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.'”
• Hebrews 1:6 – “And again, when God brings his firstborn into the world, he says, ‘Let all God’s angels worship him.'”
• Revelation 5:11-12 – “Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled the throne and the living creatures and the elders.”
• Psalms 148:2 – “Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his heavenly hosts.”
• Revelation 7:11-12 – “All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God.”
• Nehemiah 9:6 – “You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you.”
• Isaiah 6:2-3 – “Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.'”
• Revelation 14:6-7 – “Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people.”
• Revelation 19:1-2 – “After this I heard what sounded like the roar of a great multitude in heaven shouting: ‘Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God.'”
• Job 38:7 – “While the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?”

Angels and Revelation

• Daniel 8:15-16 – “While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there before me stood one who looked like a man. And I heard a man’s voice from the Ulai calling, ‘Gabriel, tell this man the meaning of the vision.'”
• Luke 1:11-13 – “Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. When Zechariah saw him, he was startled and was gripped with fear. But the angel said to him: ‘Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.'”
• Acts 7:53 – “You who have received the law that was given through angels but have not obeyed it.”
• Luke 1:26-28 – “In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, ‘Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.'”
• Luke 2:9-10 – “An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.'”
• Revelation 22:16 – “‘I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.'”

Angels and Conflict

• Revelation 12:7-9 – “Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”
• Daniel 10:13 – “But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia.”
• Jude 1:9 – “But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not himself dare to condemn him for slander but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!'”
• 2 Peter 2:11 – “Yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord.”
• Revelation 20:1-2 – “And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.”
• Matthew 25:41 – “‘Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.'”
• Revelation 12:4 – “Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment it was born.”
• Luke 10:18 – “He replied, ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.'”
• Ephesians 6:12 – “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
• Colossians 2:15 – “And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”

Angels and Messages

• Luke 1:19 – “The angel answered, ‘I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news.'”
• Matthew 1:20 – “But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.'”
• Acts 27:23-24 – “Last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.'”
• Revelation 10:1-2 – “Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars.”
• Genesis 19:1 – “The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.”
• Judges 6:12 – “When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said, ‘The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.'”
• Acts 10:5 – “‘Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter.'”
• Luke 1:30 – “But the angel said to her, ‘Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.'”
• Matthew 28:5 – “The angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.'”
• Acts 10:22 – “The men replied, ‘We have come from Cornelius the centurion. He is a righteous and God-fearing man, who is respected by all the Jewish people. A holy angel told him to ask you to come to his house so that he could hear what you have to say.'”

Angels and Promises

• Genesis 16:10 – “The angel added, ‘I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.'”
• Genesis 22:15-18 – “The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, ‘I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore.'”
• Exodus 23:20 – “‘See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.'”
• Genesis 28:12 – “He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.”
• Genesis 31:11 – “The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.'”
• Luke 1:31 – “‘You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.'”
• Matthew 28:5-7 – “The angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.'”
• Luke 2:10-11 – “‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.'”
• Revelation 12:1 – “‘A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.'”

Angels and Intercession

• Zechariah 1:12 – “Then the angel of the LORD said, ‘Lord Almighty, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah, which you have been angry with these seventy years?'”
• Job 33:23-24 – “‘If there is an angel at their side, a mediator, one out of a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him, to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom for him’—then his flesh is renewed like a child’s; it is restored as in the days of his youth.'”
• Exodus 32:34 – “‘Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.'”
• Psalm 34:7 – “‘The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them.'”
• Acts 12:7 – “‘Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. ‘Quick, get up!’ he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.'”
• Matthew 18:10 – “‘See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.'”
• Revelation 8:3-4 – “‘Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand.'”

Angels and the End Times

• Matthew 24:31 – “‘And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.'”
• Revelation 7:1 – “‘After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing on the land or on the sea or on any tree.'”
• Revelation 14:6 – “‘Then I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who live on the earth—to every nation, tribe, language and people.'”
• Revelation 16:14 – “‘They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.'”
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16 – “‘For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.'”
• 2 Thessalonians 1:7 – “‘This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels.'”
• Mark 13:27 – “‘And he will send his angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of the heavens.'”
• Revelation 8:2 – “‘And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.'”
• Revelation 12:7 – “‘Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.'”
• Revelation 19:14 – “‘The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.'”

Conclusion

The Bible depicts angels as divine messengers, protectors, and servants of God who intervene in human affairs and deliver God’s messages. This collection of 140 Bible verses about angels deepens our understanding of their role in bringing hope and guidance. Through these Scriptures, we see how angels support and enrich our spiritual journey.