Bible Verses About Wearing Earrings
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for wearing earrings, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,190 votes, led by Ezekiel 16:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Wearing Earrings
Ezekiel 16:12311 votes
And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
1 Timothy 2:9252 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 3:3252 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;
Leviticus 19:28226 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Exodus 32:2-4156 votes
And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
Deuteronomy 22:5150 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.
1 Timothy 2:9-10134 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;
Isaiah 3:16-24120 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:
Judges 8:24112 votes
And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
Genesis 35:4104 votes
And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2082 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?
1 John 2:1682 votes
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Numbers 31:5074 votes
We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
Isaiah 61:1068 votes
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
1 Peter 3:561 votes
For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
1 Peter 3:3-657 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;
Exodus 28:4251 votes
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
Proverbs 25:1245 votes
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Deuteronomy 14:139 votes
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Exodus 33:1-634 votes
And the Lord said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
Jeremiah 1:1932 votes
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.
Leviticus 16:430 votes
He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
Jeremiah 2:3230 votes
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Genesis 35:2-429 votes
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
Colossians 3:2029 votes
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
What does the Bible say about wearing earrings?
Readers most often cite Ezekiel 16:12 on the subject of wearing earrings. Across 3,190 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Peter 3:3, Leviticus 19:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.