Bible Verses About Nudity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for nudity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,118 votes, led by Genesis 2:25. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Nudity
Genesis 2:25156 votes
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Matthew 5:28151 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.
1 Timothy 2:9131 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;
Leviticus 18:6-23130 votes
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Exodus 28:42110 votes
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
Genesis 3:2186 votes
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Exodus 20:2677 votes
Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
Job 24:774 votes
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
Revelation 16:1572 votes
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Isaiah 47:1-1567 votes
Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.
1 Corinthians 12:2366 votes
And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
Genesis 3:763 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.
Isaiah 20:262 votes
At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Isaiah 20:2-452 votes
At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
Job 1:2148 votes
And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Job 24:1046 votes
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
Genesis 3:10-1144 votes
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
John 21:744 votes
Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
Genesis 9:20-2942 votes
And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
Isaiah 58:742 votes
Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
1 Samuel 19:2439 votes
And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?
Isaiah 20:331 votes
And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;
Luke 8:2731 votes
And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
Hebrews 13:431 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
2 Samuel 11:226 votes
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
What does the Bible say about nudity?
Readers most often cite Genesis 2:25 on the subject of nudity. Across 2,118 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 5:28, 1 Timothy 2:9, Leviticus 18:6-23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.