Bible Verses About Physical Imperfection

For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

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.

Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.

My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.

And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.

From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

And the man whose hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.

For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:

Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the Lord.

But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.