Bible Verses about โadornmentโ
The Bible contains 41 verses about adornment across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โOr don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,โ
โfor you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.โ
โBut seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.โ
โIn the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;โ
โLet your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;โ
โbut in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.โ
โSee the birds of the sky, that they don't sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren't you of much more value than they?โ
โ"Therefore don't be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?', 'What will we drink?' or, 'With what will we be clothed?'โ
โA woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.โ
โTherefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?โ
โFor the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.โ
โWhy are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,โ
โyet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these.โ
โBut if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won't he much more clothe you, you of little faith?โ
โ"Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?โ
โIn the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;โ
โbut (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.โ
โStrength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.โ
โFor this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:โ
โseeing your pure behavior in fear.โ
โas Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.โ
โI put a ring on your nose, and earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.โ
โI will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.โ
โnot stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.โ
โYou, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself beautiful; [your] lovers despise you, they seek your life.โ
โI decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.โ
โThus you were decked with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, and silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were exceeding beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.โ
โJesus said to her, "Didn't I tell you that if you believed, you would see God's glory?"โ
โWhen he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"โ
โHe who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."โ
โJesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.โ
โJesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."โ
โSo they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me.โ
โI know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me."โ
โI clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I dressed you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.โ
โYour renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you, says the Lord Yahweh.โ
โBut you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.โ
โYou took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: [the like things] shall not come, neither shall it be [so].โ
โYou also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;โ
โand you took your embroidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and my incense before them.โ
โMy bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed you, you even set it before them for a pleasant aroma; and [thus] it was, says the Lord Yahweh.โ
