Bible Verses About Dress Code
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for dress code, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 726 votes, led by Deuteronomy 22:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Dress Code
Deuteronomy 22:586 votes
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
1 Timothy 2:984 votes
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
1 Peter 3:3-479 votes
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Proverbs 15:363 votes
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
1 Samuel 16:749 votes
But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Genesis 18:20-2142 votes
And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
1 Corinthians 6:19-2037 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Matthew 5:2836 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Luke 12:3526 votes
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
2 Samuel 8:1-224 votes
And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg–ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
Romans 12:1-223 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Proverbs 3:622 votes
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Romans 13:1422 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Proverbs 11:2218 votes
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Matthew 22:1-1415 votes
And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,
1 Corinthians 14:1-4015 votes
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Timothy 4:1215 votes
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Romans 14:12-2114 votes
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
Job 24:712 votes
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Proverbs 31:1-3112 votes
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
Numbers 15:37-4011 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Timothy 2:2211 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Matthew 6:2510 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
What does the Bible say about dress code?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 22:5 on the subject of dress code. Across 726 votes, 23 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Peter 3:3-4, Proverbs 15:3. This page lists all 23 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.