Bible Verses About Outer Appearance
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for outer appearance, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 541 votes, led by 1 Samuel 16:7. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Outer Appearance
1 Samuel 16:7130 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.
1 Peter 3:3-482 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 31:3052 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
2 Corinthians 4:1846 votes
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
1 Timothy 2:9-1035 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;
Matthew 7:1527 votes
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
2 Corinthians 11:320 votes
But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
1 Timothy 2:919 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;
Luke 7:2516 votes
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
John 7:2416 votes
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
1 Corinthians 6:916 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Isaiah 53:214 votes
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
1 Peter 3:314 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;
Revelation 1:113 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:
Genesis 3:1-411 votes
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Psalms 139:1410 votes
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
2 Corinthians 10:710 votes
Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
1 Thessalonians 5:2210 votes
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
What does the Bible say about outer appearance?
Readers most often cite 1 Samuel 16:7 on the subject of outer appearance. Across 541 votes, 18 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:3-4, Proverbs 31:30, 2 Corinthians 4:18. This page lists all 18 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.