Bible Verses About Makeup
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for makeup, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,712 votes, led by Jeremiah 4:30. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Makeup
Jeremiah 4:30245 votes
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
2 Kings 9:30231 votes
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
1 Peter 3:3-4180 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;
Ezekiel 23:40177 votes
And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,
Isaiah 3:16-24129 votes
Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
1 Timothy 2:9101 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;
Proverbs 31:3085 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Proverbs 6:2581 votes
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Esther 2:1249 votes
Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Leviticus 19:2844 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Proverbs 6:24-2644 votes
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Deuteronomy 22:540 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.
Song of Songs 1:1040 votes
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
1 Timothy 2:9-1036 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;
Genesis 24:64-6524 votes
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
Revelation 17:424 votes
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
Genesis 24:4720 votes
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
Song of Songs 1:10-1120 votes
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
Genesis 24:2216 votes
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
1 Samuel 16:716 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.
Esther 2:916 votes
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
Hosea 2:1316 votes
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.
Romans 9:2016 votes
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Genesis 1:2714 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Song of Songs 4:312 votes
Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
What does the Bible say about makeup?
Readers most often cite Jeremiah 4:30 on the subject of makeup. Across 1,712 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 2 Kings 9:30, 1 Peter 3:3-4, Ezekiel 23:40. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.