Bible Verses About Wearing Makeup
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for wearing makeup, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,808 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 Wearing Makeup
1 Timothy 2:9-10619 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 3:3-4558 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;
Jeremiah 4:30555 votes
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
1 John 2:15-16313 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 Timothy 2:9297 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;
2 Kings 9:30276 votes
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
Deuteronomy 22:5259 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 Peter 3:1-22237 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;
Proverbs 31:30168 votes
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Isaiah 3:16-26167 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:
Song of Songs 4:7161 votes
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
2 Kings 9:30-37106 votes
And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window.
Hebrews 10:26106 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Esther 2:1285 votes
Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
Proverbs 11:2285 votes
As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Revelation 2:2078 votes
Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Isaiah 3:1675 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:
Romans 14:2274 votes
Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
Ezekiel 16:10-1271 votes
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
Titus 3:866 votes
This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.
1 Corinthians 11:556 votes
But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
1 Timothy 3:1-655 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Ecclesiastes 12:1351 votes
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
1 Timothy 2:11-1449 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Esther 5:1-247 votes
Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
What does the Bible say about wearing makeup?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:9-10 on the subject of wearing makeup. Across 5,808 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:3-4, Jeremiah 4:30, 1 John 2:15-16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.