39 Bible Verses about Ointment

The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.

Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.

Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin: And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.

And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.

And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.

The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,

There came to him a woman having a bottle of perfume of great price, and she put the perfume on his head when he was seated at table.

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.

And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,

So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.

Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.

And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.

And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy.

You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet.

For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.

She has done what she was able: she has put oil on my body to make it ready for its last resting-place.

Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so. And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, got spices, so that they might come and put them on him.

But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.

And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste? For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.

But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted? We might have got more than three hundred pence for it, and given the money to the poor. And they said things against her among themselves.

The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.

Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, but they were sharp swords.

And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.

Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?

And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.

Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.

Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.