Bible Verses About Wearing Jewelry
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for wearing jewelry, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,457 votes, led by 1 Timothy 2:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Wearing Jewelry
1 Timothy 2:9475 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 3:3-4469 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 Timothy 2:9-10350 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 3:3350 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 Peter 3:1-6275 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;
Isaiah 3:16-24260 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:
Deuteronomy 22:5257 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.
Isaiah 61:10238 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.
Leviticus 19:28233 votes
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
1 Peter 3:4206 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.
Romans 12:2189 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.
Genesis 35:4167 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.
Luke 15:22155 votes
But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
Isaiah 3:18-20144 votes
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
Numbers 31:50133 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.
Exodus 35:22129 votes
And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold: and every man that offered offered an offering of gold unto the Lord.
Proverbs 25:12128 votes
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Genesis 24:22126 votes
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
Exodus 3:22108 votes
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Genesis 24:47106 votes
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
Psalms 31:6100 votes
I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.
Song of Songs 1:1097 votes
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
1 Samuel 16:788 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.
Revelation 1:185 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:
Song of Songs 1:10-1184 votes
Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
What does the Bible say about wearing jewelry?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:9 on the subject of wearing jewelry. Across 8,457 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:3-4, 1 Timothy 2:9-10, 1 Peter 3:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.