Character & Virtues

Bible Verses About how we dress

16 key scriptures

Explore what the Bible says about how we dress. This collection of 16 key Scripture passages reveals God's wisdom and guidance on this important theme.

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TranslationKey Verse: 1 Timothy 2:9
King James (KJV)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; broided: or, plaited

16 Key Scriptures

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; broided: or, plaited
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.
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?
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
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.
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
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;
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
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. outward: Heb. eyes
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
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.
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:

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