54 Bible Verses about Veils

And she said to the servant, What man is this who walks in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil, and covered herself.

And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not give When Judah saw her, he thought her to be a harlot, for she had covered her face.

And say, Thus says lord LORD: Woe to the women who sew pillows upon all elbows, and make headdresses for the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

Take the millstones, and grind meal. Remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

And David went up by the ascent of the [mount of] Olives, and wept as he went up, and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they we

And the man with a leprous disease in whom the disease is, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

because of the ground which is cracked. Because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame; they cover their heads.

And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind thy headdress upon thee, and put thy shoes upon thy feet. And do not cover thy lips, and do not eat the bread of men.

And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded. Yea, they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.

Every man praying or prophesying having something upon his head dishonors his head.

But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven. For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man.

Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.

He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.

And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.

Woe to those who hide deep their counsel from LORD, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and, Who knows us?

Why do thou hide thy face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

Why do thou hide thy face, and reckon me for thine enemy?

and hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in distress. Answer me speedily.

LORD, why do thou cast off my soul? Why do thou hide thy face from me?

For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven,

And she called the name of LORD who spoke to her, Thou are a God who sees, for she said, Have I even here looked behind him who sees me?

For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his goings.

LORD looks from heaven. He beholds all the sons of men.

O LORD, thou have searched me, and known. Thou know my sitting down and my rising up. Thou understand my thought afar off. Thou search out my path and my laying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Therefore do not judge anything before time, until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make public the deliberations of the hearts. And then praise will come to each man from God.

He binds the streams that they not trickle. And the thing that is hid he brings forth to light.

For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Fear them not therefore, for there is nothing covered, that will not be revealed, and hid, that will not be known.

But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

each man's work will become manifest. For the day will make it known, because it is revealed by fire. And the fire will test each man's work of what kind it is.

and are not as Moses. He put a veil over his face in order for the sons of Israel not to gaze on the end of the fading.

And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking wi And when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him. And Moses called to them. And Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him, and Moses spoke to them.read more.
And afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he gave them in commandment all that LORD had spoken with him on mount Sinai. And when Moses was done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face. But when Moses went in before LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out. And he came out, and spoke to the sons of Israel that which he was commanded. And the sons of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone. And Moses put the veil upon his face again until he went in to speak with him.

But their minds were hardened, for to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old testament, not being uncovered, which thing is abolished in Christ. But to this day when Moses is read, a veil lays upon their heart.

They do not know, nor do they consider. For he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.

Now the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is unable to understand because they are evaluated spiritually.

But even if our good-news is concealed, it is concealed in those who are perishing,

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the callousness of their heart.

But we speak a wisdom of God in a hidden mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age know. For if they knew, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him.read more.
But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

the mystery that was hidden from the ages and from the generations, but has now been made known to his sanctified.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides thee, [what] he has prepared for him who waits for him.

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times, but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith,

But whenever it turns to Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face seeing by reflection the glory of Lord, are transformed into the same likeness from glory to glory, just as from the Spirit of Lord.

Having made known to us the mystery of his will according to his desire, which he purposed within himself

that according to revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief. With which reading ye can recognize my understanding in the mystery of the Christ, which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets.read more.
For Gentiles to be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and fellow partakers of his promise in the Christ through the good-news.

But which has now been manifested by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who indeed abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the good-news,

in hope of eternal life, which the non-lying God promised before times eternal, but in his own times he made known his word by preaching, which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

And he will destroy on this mountain the face of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallowed up death in victory, and lord LORD will wipe away tears from off all faces. And he will take away the reproach of his people from off all the earth. For LORD has spoken it.

For the eager expectation of the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet made known what we will be. But we know that whenever he is made known we will be like him, because we will see him as he is.