37 Bible Verses about Covering

Then the eyes of both of them were opened. They realized they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Then I passed by you and saw that you were at the time for love. So I spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became mine, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders. Then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness.

If you take someone's cloak as a pledge that he will pay you, you must give it back to him before the sunsets, for it is the only covering he has to keep him warm. What else can he sleep in? When he cries out to me for help, I will answer him because I am merciful.

Make linen undergarments to cover them down to their thighs.

Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance. I will not spare a man.

You ordained your memorial behind the doors and their posts. You revealed (uncovered) yourself to those other than me. You went to them. You enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their naked manhood.

I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet. I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

Therefore I will take back my grain at that time, and my new wine in the season. I will pluck away my wool and my flax that should have covered her nakedness.

The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes.

I counsel you to buy gold from me, gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed. In this way the shame of your nakedness will not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.

Above him were seraphs, each with six wings. With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

She asked Abraham's servant: Who is that man walking toward us in the field? He is my master, the servant answered. So she took her veil (scarf) and covered her face.

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head. She is the same as if she had her head shaved. For if the woman were not covered, let her also be shaved. But if it is a shame for a woman to have her head shaved, let her be covered. For a man should not cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.read more.
For the man is not from the woman; but the woman is from the man. Neither was man created for woman but woman for man. That is why the woman should have a sign of authority on her head because of the angels. However in the Lord, both men and women exist together. Not one without the other. For as woman is from man, even so is man also from woman. But all things are from God! Judge in yourselves. Is it proper that women pray to God uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if men have long hair, it is a shame? But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her for her hair is given her for a covering.

([Psalm of David]) Blessed is the person whose transgression is forgiven and whose sin is pardoned. Blessed is the person whom Jehovah no longer accuses of sin and who has no deceitful thoughts.

He said to Sarah: Do not forget that I have given your brother twenty-five pounds of silver. This is to silence any criticism against you from everyone with you. You are completely cleared.

He will do the same thing with this bull that he did with the bull used as the offering for sin. So the priest will pay compensation for the wrong and make peace with Jehovah for the people. They will be forgiven.

Do not let their wrongdoing be covered or their sin be washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

My transgressions will be sealed up in a bag. You will cover over my sin.

I confessed my sins to you, and I did not cover up my guilt. I decided to confess them to you, O Jehovah. Then you forgave all my sins.

You removed your people's guilt. You pardoned all their sins.

He who covers a transgression seeks love but he who gossips breaks up friendships.

saying: Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom, Jehovah will not impute sin. (Psalm 32:2)

let him know, that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a person from death, and cover a multitude of sins.

Above all things have intense love for one another, for love covers a multitude of sins.

He made the darkness his hiding place, his pavilion round about, the dark rain clouds his covering.

Mount Sinai was all in smoke because Jehovah descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace. The whole mountain quaked violently!

That day the tent of the words of God's Covenant was set up. The column of smoke covered it. The smoke over the tent glowed like fire from evening until morning. The smoke always glowed this way. At night the smoke that covered the tent glowed like fire.

He spread out a cloud as a protective covering and a fire to light up the night.