Bible Verses About The Way We Dress
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the way we dress, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,781 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 The Way We Dress
1 Timothy 2:9-10461 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;
Deuteronomy 22:5353 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.
Leviticus 19:28288 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
1 Timothy 2:9273 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 3:3246 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;
1 Corinthians 6:19-20228 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Proverbs 31:30195 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Romans 12:2184 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.
Romans 12:1166 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.
Proverbs 7:10155 votes
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Matthew 5:28145 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.
Romans 14:21112 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.
1 Peter 3:1-5:14110 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 13:1492 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Isaiah 3:16-2690 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 Corinthians 10:3165 votes
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 14:20-4062 votes
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Mark 7:19-2459 votes
Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Hebrews 13:458 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 31:2556 votes
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Exodus 28:4253 votes
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
1 Peter 3:3-452 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;
John 3:16-1751 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Zephaniah 1:850 votes
And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
1 Samuel 16:748 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.
What does the Bible say about the way we dress?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:9-10 on the subject of the way we dress. Across 4,781 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Deuteronomy 22:5, Leviticus 19:28, 1 Timothy 2:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.