Bible Verses About Ugly People
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for ugly people, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 610 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 Ugly People
1 Samuel 16:7153 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 3:3-497 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 31:3045 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Psalms 139:1436 votes
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Proverbs 11:2236 votes
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Genesis 1:2724 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Matthew 23:27-2824 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.
James 2:1-424 votes
My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
Hebrews 10:3523 votes
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Ecclesiastes 3:1120 votes
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
2 Corinthians 4:1620 votes
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
1 Timothy 4:820 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.
John 7:2415 votes
Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.
Psalms 139:13-1613 votes
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
1 Samuel 25:312 votes
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
Proverbs 6:16-1912 votes
These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Isaiah 53:212 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.
John 3:16-1712 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.
1 Timothy 2:9-1012 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;
What does the Bible say about ugly people?
Readers most often cite 1 Samuel 16:7 on the subject of ugly people. Across 610 votes, 19 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:3-4, Proverbs 31:30, Psalms 139:14. This page lists all 19 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.