What Does the Bible Say About Style Of Clothing?

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Luke 15:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring quickly the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet.

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. And she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out of the window.

Genesis 35:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

Revelation 17:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For there are three that testify:

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

1 Timothy 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Acts 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Ezekiel 23:1-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother. They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled. Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem. “Oholah played the whore while she was mine, and she lusted after her lovers the Assyrians, warriors ...

Jeremiah 2:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

Isaiah 3:16-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ...

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Job 42:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him. And each of them gave him a piece of money and a ring of gold.

Leviticus 19:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.

Exodus 33:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; if for a single moment I should go up among you, I would consume you. So now take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do with you.’”

Genesis 41:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.

Genesis 35:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you and purify yourselves and change your garments.

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

36 Bible Verses about Style Of Clothing

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 15:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 35:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 17:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 23:1-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 2:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:16-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 42:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 33:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 41:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 35:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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36 Bible Verses about Style Of Clothing

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Genesis 35:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Luke 15:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Kings 9:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 35:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 17:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ezekiel 23:1-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 2:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 3:16-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 42:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 19:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 33:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 41:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 35:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes