What Does the Bible Say About External Beauty?

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 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. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ...

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 4 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 Timothy 2:9-10 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, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 3 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.

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Psalm 44:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us. ...

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 2 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.

1 Peter 3:1-22 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, ...

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

John 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

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.

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

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 10:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey! What will you do on the day of punishment, in the ruin that will come from afar? To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth? Nothing remains but to crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still. Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury! ...

Proverbs 31:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

Proverbs 31:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.

Proverbs 31:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.

Proverbs 31:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.

Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, “Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head. From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company. And there shall be with you a man from each tribe, each man being the head of the house of his fathers. And these are the names of the men who shall assist you. From Reuben, Elizur the son of Shedeur; ...

Titus 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children,

31 Bible Verses about External Beauty

Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 44:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 10:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Proverbs 31:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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31 Bible Verses about External Beauty

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Isaiah 53:1-12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Isaiah 53:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 44:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 61:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 10:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Proverbs 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 1:1-54 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Titus 2:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote