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The Number 3 in the Bible

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 08/08/2018
The Number 3 in the Bible

What is the meaning of the number 3 in the Bible? One obvious meaning of the number three is the Trinity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In a general sense, number three in the Bible also signifies growth and reproduction. There were three apostles of God: Peter, John, and James, who followed Jesus Christ to the garden of Gethsemane. These apostles signify light, love, and life individually. Other trinities existing in the Bible are body, spirit and soul and the three parts of the consciousness of the mind: conscious, superconscious and subconscious. Additionally, there are three archangels mentioned in the Bible by name as Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.

Three plays a vital role in the stories and meaning of the Bible. Discover Bible verses that reference the number 3 in the collection below!

1 Timothy 2:5

1 Timothy 2:5
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
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2 Timothy 3:16

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
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Acts 17:28

28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
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Colossians 2:9

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form,
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Exodus 3:14

14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
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Genesis 1:26

In what ways do you think we are in the likeness of God? - Genesis 1:26
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
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Hebrews 4:12

Hebrews 4:12 - The Word of God
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
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John 4:24

24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
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Leviticus 19:28

28 “ ‘Do not cut your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
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Matthew 12:40

40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
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Revelation 1:4

4 John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from him who is, and who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne,
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Titus 1:12

12 One of Crete’s own prophets has said it: “Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy gluttons.”
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1 Corinthians 15:33

33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
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1 John 5:7-9

7 For there are three that testify:
8 the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.
9 We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son.
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John 3:16-18

You Are Loved
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
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