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Want to know what the Bible says about The Dove? Here are 30 Bible verses about The Dove from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Matthew 3:16-17 NIV
16 As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. 17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”
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Luke 3:21-22 NIV
21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
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Genesis 8:11 NIV
When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth.
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Matthew 3:16 NIV
As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him.
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Luke 3:22 NIV
and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
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John 1:32 NIV
Then John gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him.
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Matthew 10:16 NIV
“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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Psalm 55:6 NIV
I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!
    I would fly away and be at rest.
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Luke 2:24 NIV
and to offer a sacrifice in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord: “a pair of doves or two young pigeons.”
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Mark 1:10 NIV
Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
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Hosea 7:11 NIV
“Ephraim is like a dove,
    easily deceived and senseless—
now calling to Egypt,
    now turning to Assyria.
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Isaiah 60:8 NIV
“Who are these that fly along like clouds,
    like doves to their nests?
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Song of Solomon 1:15 NIV
How beautiful you are, my darling!
    Oh, how beautiful!
    Your eyes are doves.
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Genesis 8:10 NIV
He waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.
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Genesis 8:8 NIV
Then he sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground.
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Jeremiah 48:28 NIV
Abandon your towns and dwell among the rocks,
    you who live in Moab.
Be like a dove that makes its nest
    at the mouth of a cave.
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Genesis 1:2 NIV
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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Isaiah 38:14 NIV
I cried like a swift or thrush,
    I moaned like a mourning dove.
My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens.
    I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
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Matthew 21:12 NIV
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves.
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Leviticus 12:6 NIV
“‘When the days of her purification for a son or daughter are over, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin offering.
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