What does the Bible say about the Trinity?

Key Bible verses about the Trinity

1. Deuteronomy 6:4

   Hear, Israel: The LORD is our God. The LORD is one.

2. Genesis 1:26

   God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

3. Matthew 3:16-17

   Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him. Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”

4. Matthew 28:19

   Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

5. John 1:1-3

   In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

6. John 1:14

   The Word became flesh and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the only born Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

7. John 10:30

   I and the Father are one.”

8. John 14:16-17

   I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever: the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive, for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.

9. Acts 5:3-4

   But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land? While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God.”

10. 2 Corinthians 13:14

    The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

11. Ephesians 4:4-6

    There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in us all.

12. 1 Peter 1:2

    according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Scripture: World English Bible (public domain). Short quotations in the introduction are from the ESV. Read each passage in its chapter for the full context.