Bible Verses About Modest Apparel
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for modest apparel, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,370 votes, led by 1 Timothy 2:9-10. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Modest Apparel
1 Timothy 2:9-10193 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 Timothy 2:9141 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 3:4107 votes
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
1 Peter 3:3103 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;
Deuteronomy 22:598 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 Peter 3:1-2278 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;
Romans 12:164 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.
Leviticus 19:2860 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Romans 12:258 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.
1 Timothy 2:1042 votes
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Matthew 5:2837 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.
Galatians 5:1636 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Proverbs 11:2234 votes
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Isaiah 3:16-2633 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:
Proverbs 31:17-2232 votes
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Romans 12:929 votes
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Proverbs 7:1027 votes
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Romans 14:2126 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.
Genesis 3:2120 votes
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Genesis 3:719 votes
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
James 1:1-2718 votes
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
1 Peter 3:1-717 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;
James 1:1514 votes
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
Proverbs 31:1713 votes
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Matthew 18:613 votes
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
What does the Bible say about modest apparel?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:9-10 on the subject of modest apparel. Across 1,370 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Peter 3:4, 1 Peter 3:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.