beauty
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3For you, there should be no unnecessary adornment of the hair, or surrounding with gold, or the wearing of ornate clothing. 4Instead, you should be a hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptibility of a quiet and meek spirit, rich in the sight of God.
30Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.
7You are totally beautiful, my love, and there is no blemish in you.
7And the Lord said to Samuel: “You should not look with favor on his face, nor on the height of his stature. For I have rejected him. Neither do I judge by the appearance of a man. For man sees those things that are apparent, but the Lord beholds the heart.”
27And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.
14I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.
8The grass has dried up, and the flower has fallen. But the Word of our Lord remains for eternity.”
16For this reason, we are not insufficient. But it is as though our outer man is corrupted, while our inner man is renewed from day to day.
11He has made all things good in their time, and he has handed over the world to their disputes, so that man may not discover the work which God made from the beginning, even until the end.
10For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.
9Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire, 10but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.
25Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.
9Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire,
8Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.
17And your heart was exalted by your beauty; you have destroyed your own wisdom by your beauty. I have cast you to the ground. I have presented you before the face of kings, so that they may examine you.