100 Bible Verses About Beauty

Bible verses about Beauty

Discovering beauty through the lens of scripture reveals a profound truth: true beauty originates from within, reflecting the divine image in which we are created. The Bible doesn't shy away from outward beauty but consistently emphasizes the impermanence of physical allure compared to the enduring beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. Exploring these verses will guide you to understand that lasting beauty is cultivated through faith, love, and acts of kindness. It's a beauty that radiates God's grace, transforming not only our own lives but also touching the hearts of those around us, creating a ripple effect of hope and inspiration.

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Exodus 35:27 (KJV)

And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;

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They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side.

Psalms 65:12KJV

Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

2 Chronicles 4:20KJV

I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

Song of Solomon 5:5KJV

And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.

Genesis 39:6KJV

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

Deuteronomy 21:11KJV

And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 39:16KJV

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Song of Solomon 7:9KJV

And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Judges 16:4KJV

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 3:10KJV

I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

Job 41:12KJV

He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes.

Psalms 147:16KJV

And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

2 Samuel 14:27KJV

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11KJV

Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them.

Song of Solomon 6:6KJV

And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

1 Kings 7:22KJV

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

Psalms 139:14KJV

And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

1 Kings 6:35KJV

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.

Exodus 30:3KJV

And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 39:17KJV

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

Psalms 144:9KJV

For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:2KJV

Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.

Exodus 37:22KJV

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Isaiah 55:13KJV

To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

Esther 1:11KJV

Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 4:11KJV

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

Proverbs 25:12KJV

And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 37:4KJV

And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

Exodus 26:36KJV

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Song of Solomon 8:14KJV

A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.

Exodus 28:34KJV

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Song of Solomon 1:5KJV

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Esther 2:17KJV

And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

Exodus 28:18KJV

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

Ecclesiastes 11:7KJV

And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

Isaiah 2:13KJV

The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.

Song of Solomon 1:1KJV

Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

Exodus 25:36KJV

And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

Exodus 35:9KJV

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

1 Samuel 25:3KJV

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Psalms 147:8KJV

She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

Psalms 45:14KJV

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

Song of Solomon 7:1KJV

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

1 Kings 6:18KJV

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

Exodus 36:37KJV

So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

Psalms 45:11KJV

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Psalms 103:15KJV

Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

Exodus 25:33KJV

My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song of Solomon 6:2KJV

What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

Song of Solomon 5:9KJV

And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

Exodus 36:35KJV

And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

2 Samuel 13:1KJV

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

Genesis 26:7KJV

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Song of Solomon 4:6KJV

Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

Exodus 25:7KJV

And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;

2 Chronicles 4:21KJV

While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

Song of Solomon 1:12KJV

As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Proverbs 11:22KJV

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

Isaiah 35:1KJV

Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.

Song of Solomon 1:15KJV

And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

1 Kings 7:11KJV

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

1 Samuel 17:42KJV

Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Psalms 96:6KJV

And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

1 Kings 6:28KJV

I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Song of Solomon 5:2KJV

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

Psalms 8:9KJV

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

Song of Solomon 7:12KJV

Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.

Song of Solomon 4:2KJV

A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

Song of Solomon 4:12KJV

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Esther 2:7KJV

A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Exodus 39:26KJV

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple.

Psalms 27:4KJV

And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

Job 42:15KJV

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.

Jeremiah 4:30KJV

And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

Exodus 36:17KJV

O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

Psalms 96:9KJV

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

Exodus 35:6KJV

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song of Solomon 2:7KJV

And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

1 Samuel 16:12KJV

My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

Song of Solomon 5:10KJV

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.

2 Samuel 14:25KJV

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Psalms 8:3KJV

I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 6:3KJV

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Proverbs 5:19KJV

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.

Isaiah 3:24KJV

And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

Exodus 39:13KJV

And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

Exodus 28:40KJV

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

Song of Solomon 2:9KJV

Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Job 39:13KJV

Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

Song of Solomon 4:4KJV

She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

Proverbs 31:22KJV

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

Isaiah 44:13KJV

Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:

Psalms 148:9KJV

In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

Isaiah 28:5KJV

Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

Song of Solomon 1:3KJV

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

Song of Solomon 2:12KJV

And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;

Exodus 35:27KJV

As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

Song of Solomon 6:7KJV

And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother for glory and for beauty.

Exodus 28:2KJV

There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:

Proverbs 30:29KJV

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

Exodus 37:28KJV

The Bible's verses on beauty reveal a consistent theme: true beauty transcends the superficial. While physical beauty is acknowledged, the emphasis lies on inner beauty – a beauty cultivated through a gentle spirit, wisdom, kindness, and fear of the Lord. These verses challenge us to shift our focus from fleeting outward appearances to the enduring qualities of character. Reflecting on these scriptures encourages a reevaluation of our priorities, urging us to invest in developing inner beauty that shines from within, reflecting the likeness of Christ. Let us strive to cultivate hearts that are pure and spirits that are gentle, remembering that such beauty is not only pleasing to God but also leaves a lasting impact on the world around us.