What Does the Bible Say About Ugly?

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 200 helpful votes

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 199 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 155 helpful votes

He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 144 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— 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.

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 116 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes

For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV / 80 helpful votes

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Song of Solomon 1:5-6 ESV / 74 helpful votes

I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother's sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept!

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 56 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Timothy 4:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

Matthew 23:27-28 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Proverbs 6:25 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 44 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, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 43 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Genesis 29:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

Ezekiel 16:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And your renown went forth among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through the splendor that I had bestowed on you, declares the Lord God.

Isaiah 53:2-3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

1 Samuel 25:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.

James 2:1-4 ESV / 24 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 21 helpful votes

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

Romans 12:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Zechariah 11:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword strike his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!”

Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes

You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.

Proverbs 15:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Song of Solomon 1:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

2 Corinthians 10:7 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.

Acts 10:34-35 ESV / 13 helpful votes

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

1 Peter 3:1-2 ESV / 12 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.

1 Peter 1:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

James 2:2-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.

Genesis 41:19 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Seven other cows came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I had never seen in all the land of Egypt.

James 3:16 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

James 2:2-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”

Romans 12:2 ESV / 8 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.

John 1:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Zechariah 3:3-4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Now Joshua was standing before the angel, clothed with filthy garments. And the angel said to those who were standing before him, “Remove the filthy garments from him.” And to him he said, “Behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you, and I will clothe you with pure vestments.”

Ezekiel 28:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

Psalm 34:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.

Acts 17:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Job 31:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Genesis 1:26-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

2 Peter 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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 Peter 1:24-25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever.” And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

James 3:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.

James 3:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 4 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,

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Romans 10:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

Acts 3:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And recognized him as the one who sat at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Luke 16:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 12:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Luke 12:22-23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...

Isaiah 64:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Isaiah 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but bruises and sores and raw wounds; they are not pressed out or bound up or softened with oil.

Proverbs 3:15-18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.

Psalm 149:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.

Job 40:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

1 Samuel 16:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.”

John 3:16 ESV / 3 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.

66 Bible Verses about Ugly

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 200 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 199 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV / 155 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 144 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 135 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 116 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 1:5-6 ESV / 74 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 56 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Proverbs 6:25 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 29:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 16:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Samuel 25:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 2:1-4 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Song of Solomon 4:7 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 15:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 1:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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