31 Bible Verses about Outer Garments

Now he said: Take your purse and wallet. If you do not have a sword sell your cloak and buy one.

They said to one another, Let us not tear the coat. So they cast lots for it. That fulfilled the scripture that said: They parted my garments among them, and they cast lots for my covering.

Who can remove his outer coat? Who can approach him with a double bridle?

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.

Wash and perfume yourself and put on your best clothes. Go down to the floor. Make yourself known to the man after he is done eating and drinking.

A person will grab one of his relatives from his father's family and say: You have a coat. You will be our leader. This pile of ruins will be under your control.

Then the relative will cry out: I am not a healer! I do not have any food or a coat in my home. Do not make me a leader of the people.

The first one was reddish. His skin was like a hairy robe, so he was named Esau.

When I saw among the spoils a quality Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. I hid them in the earth in the middle of my tent.

Elijah heard it and went out covering his face with his robe. He stood by the entrance of the cave. He heard a voice saying: What are you doing here, Elijah?

Elijah left there and found Elisha plowing with a team of bulls. There were eleven teams ahead of him. He was plowing with the last one. Elijah took off his cloak and put it on Elisha.

Then Elijah took off his cloak. He rolled it up and struck the water with it. The water divided, and he and Elisha crossed to the other side on dry ground.

He picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen from him. He returned to stand by the bank of the Jordan. Elisha struck the water with Elijah's cloak and said: Where is Jehovah, the God of Elijah? Then he struck the water again, and it divided, and he walked over to the other side.

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.

If someone takes you to court to sue you and takes your shirt, let him have your coat as well.

When someone slaps you on one cheek offer the other. Give your coat to the one who takes your topcoat.

Peter went to them right a way. When he arrived they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

Setting aside his garment, he sprang up, and came to Jesus.

They wanted to touch his robe to be made well.

Hearing about Jesus she came though the crowd and touched his garment.

She said: If I touch his garments I shall be made whole.

Suddenly Jesus recognized that power issued from him. He turned to the crowd and asked: Who touched my garments?

When he entered a village or city in the marketplaces or the country the sick tried to touch the border of his garment and be healed.

You in the field do not return to get your clothes.

He who is in the field should not return to take his clothes.

The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They dressed him in a purple garment.

Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said: Look, the man!

The angel said: Dress yourself and put on sandals. Put on your coat and follow me. So Peter did as he was told.

He was clothed with a garment dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

When you come, bring the books, parchments, and the cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus.