40 Bible Verses about Inner Beauty

but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable [quality] of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God.

From Zion, [the] perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Let your adornment not be the external [kind], braiding hair and putting on gold jewelry or putting on [fine] clothing,

As the waters [reflect] {face to face}, so the heart of a person [reflects] the person.

A heart of gladness will make good {countenance}, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For [God does] not [see] what man sees, for a man {looks on the outward appearance}, but Yahweh {looks on the heart}."

For in the [same] way formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves [by] being subject to their own husbands,

You [are] completely beautiful, my beloved! {You are flawless}!

Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

With regard to [the] saints who [are] in the land, they [are the] noble ones in [whom is] all my desire.

Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner [person] is being renewed day after day.

And by knowledge, rooms are filled [with] all riches, precious and pleasant.

Blessed [are] the pure in heart, because they will see God.

and put on the new man (in accordance with God), who is created in righteousness and holiness from the truth.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

And a certain man was being carried who was lame {from birth}. {He} was placed every day at the gate of the temple called "Beautiful," [so that he] could ask for charitable gifts from those who were going into the temple [courts].

The king's daughter is all glorious within; her garment [is] of gold embroidered cloth.

For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person,

(the eyes of your hearts having been enlightened), so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what [are] the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints,

The law of Yahweh [is] perfect, reviving life. The testimony of Yahweh [is] firm, making wise [the] simple.

In the [same] way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is for you.

Do you not know that you are God's temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you?

be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

For to us God has revealed [them] through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all [things], even the depths of God.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him [be] the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Finally, brothers, whatever [things] are true, whatever [things are] honorable, whatever [things are] right, whatever [things are] pure, whatever [things are] pleasing, whatever [things are] commendable, if [there is] any excellence of character and if anything praiseworthy, think about these [things].

So teach [us] to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Within them [they think] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They {name} [their] lands by their [own] names.

The one who is on his housetop must not come down to take things out of his house,

And he sent out [the] form of a hand, and he took me by a lock of hair of my head, and [the] Spirit lifted me between earth and heaven, and it brought me to Jerusalem in visions of God to the doorway of [the] inner gate {that faced north}, [at] which there [was] the seat of the image of jealousy, which was making jealous.

Likewise also the women should adorn themselves in appropriate clothing, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold jewelry or pearls or expensive clothing,

The name of the man [was] Nabal, and the name of his wife [was] Abigail. Now the woman [was] wise and beautiful, but the man [was] stubborn and {mean}, and he [was] as his heart.

For the good that I want [to do], I do not do, but the evil that I do not want [to do], this I do.

which we have like an anchor of the soul, both firm and steadfast, and entering into the inside of the curtain,

Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me.

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs {at the future}.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!

All scripture [is] inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness,

and have put on the new [man] that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created him,