27 Bible Verses about Beauty And Self Worth

but rather that hidden personality of the heart, the imperishable ornament of a quiet and gentle spirit, which in the sight of God is indeed precious.

For in this way in the olden time the holy women also, who put their trust in God, used to adorn themselves. They were ever in submission to their own husbands;

Let your manner of life before the Gentiles be honest; so that, although they are now slandering you as evil-doers, they may, by beholding your noble conduct, come to glorify God, in the day of visitation.

For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.

Have full sympathy with one another. Set not your minds on high affairs, but associate with lowly folk. Do not be wise in your own conceits.

Your adornment ought not to be the outward adornment of plaited hair and golden jewels and the wearing of beautiful dresses;

For you keep saying, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and do not know that you are the wretched one, and pitiable and beggared and blind and naked.

"Consider the ravens; they neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barn. And yet God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds?

"Consider the lilies how they grow! They toil not, neither do they spin, yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

"Behold! the birds in the sky! They neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them; and are not you worth more than they?

"But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you.

Or has not the potter power over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for noble, and another for ignoble uses?

Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later."

"and he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I do always the things that please him."

In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives,

Charge them to practise benevolence, to be rich in good works, to be open-handed and generous,

"only one thing is really necessary. Mary, moreover, has chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her."

thus, for example, Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are daughters of Sarah, if you do what is right, and permit nothing to make you afraid.

And the devil led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth in an instant of time, and the devil said to him.

and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

See that you have a clear conscience, so that, although they speak of you as evil-doers, these libelers of your good Christian lives may be ashamed.

But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.

Oh, the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unfathomable are his judgments, and how unsearchable his paths!

Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

For this reason the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of her guardian angels.

Keep contending in the noble contest of the faith; seize hold on eternal life, to which you were called when you confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her,