Bible Verses About How We Dress
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for how we dress, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 9,925 votes, led by 1 Timothy 2:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about How We Dress
1 Timothy 2:9500 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;
Deuteronomy 22:5457 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 Corinthians 6:19-20365 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?
Proverbs 31:30300 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
1 Timothy 2:9-10281 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;
Romans 12:2231 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Leviticus 19:28221 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 7:10201 votes
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Romans 12:1192 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.
1 Peter 3:3-4192 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;
1 Peter 3:1-6185 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
1 Corinthians 11:1-34177 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
1 Corinthians 10:31171 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Samuel 16:7166 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.
Romans 14:21163 votes
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Romans 12:1-2162 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.
1 John 2:15162 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Revelation 1:1159 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
1 Peter 3:3157 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;
Matthew 5:28150 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.
2 Timothy 2:22149 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Peter 3:3-8135 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;
Romans 13:14125 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
1 Corinthians 11:15123 votes
But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Genesis 1:27119 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
What does the Bible say about how we dress?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:9 on the subject of how we dress. Across 9,925 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 22:5, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Proverbs 31:30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.