inner beauty
What does the Bible say about inner beauty? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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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.
7You are totally beautiful, my love, and there is no blemish in you.
30Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.
14I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.
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.”
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.
15She is more precious than all riches, and all that can be desired cannot prevail in comparison to her.
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.
15She is more precious than all riches, and all that can be desired cannot prevail in comparison to her. 16Length of days is at her right hand, and at her left hand is wealth and glory. 17Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceful. 18She is a tree of life to those who overtake her, and he who shall take hold of her is blessed.
4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. 5Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. 6Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. 7Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all. 8Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed.
6Approach him and be enlightened, and your faces will not be confounded.
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.