Topic

Mirror

Passages from across the Bible

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Of brass (bronze)

  • Job 37:18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?

Given by the Iraelitish women to be melted for the laver of the tabernacle

  • Exodus 38:8 Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

Figurative

  • 1 Corinthians 13:12 Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
  • 2 Corinthians 3:18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
  • James 1:23–24 For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

Word study: the Hebrew and Greek words behind “mirror” →

Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.