Bible Verses About Physical Beauty
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for physical beauty, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,135 votes, led by Proverbs 31:30. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Physical Beauty
Proverbs 31:30211 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
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.
1 Timothy 2:9121 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 3:4116 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 3:1-774 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 3:1655 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Genesis 1:2752 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1 Peter 3:3-640 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 23:2738 votes
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
1 Corinthians 6:1834 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Psalms 45:1133 votes
So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
1 Timothy 4:825 votes
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Galatians 5:19-2119 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Luke 15:718 votes
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
John 4:2417 votes
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
1 Peter 5:716 votes
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Ezekiel 28:715 votes
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
1 Peter 5:815 votes
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
James 1:1214 votes
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Psalms 139:1412 votes
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Acts 17:2812 votes
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Hebrews 13:412 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Esther 2:710 votes
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
Luke 20:3610 votes
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
What does the Bible say about physical beauty?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 31:30 on the subject of physical beauty. Across 1,135 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Peter 3:4. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.