11 Bible Verses about Perfume

And when he was at Bethany, and was reclining at the house of Simon the leper, a woman came, having a vase of ointment of genuine nard, extremely costly, and breaking the vase she poured it out on his head.

Then Mary taking a pound of genuine nard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hairs. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

cinnamon and amomum and incense and ointment and frankincense, and wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and of horses and chariots and servants, and souls of men.

But thanks be to God, who always triumphs over us in Christ and reveals the odor of his knowledge by us in every place; for we are a sweet odor of Christ to God, in the saved and in the lost, in one an odor of death to death, and in the other an odor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.

But I have all things and abound, I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a perfume of good odor, an acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God.

For in putting this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial.

She has done what she could. She anticipated anointing my body for the burial.

And when the sabbath was passed, Mary the Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

Then Jesus said, Let her alone, that she may keep this for the day of preparation for my burial;

And Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. Then they took the body of Jesus, and bound it with bandages, with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to prepare for burial.