15 Bible Verses About Beauty



  • Genesis 1:31 calls everything God made “very good,” after each stage of creation had been called good.
  • Psalm 27:4 asks to “gaze on the beauty of the LORD”; the Hebrew word, noam, also means pleasantness or delight.
  • Where the NIV has worship “in the splendor of his holiness” in Psalm 29:2, the King James Version has “the beauty of holiness”; the Hebrew noun, hadarah, means splendor, majesty or beauty.
  • In 1 Samuel 16:7 God rejects Eliab despite his appearance, and David, who is chosen, is described as handsome (16:12).
  • Proverbs 31:30 calls beauty fleeting beside the fear of the LORD, and 1 Peter 3:3-4 sets outward adornment against “the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit.”

The Bible calls the created world very good, speaks of the beauty of God himself and of his worship, and calls human beauty fleeting beside the fear of the LORD. Psalm 27:4 asks to “gaze on the beauty of the LORD,” 1 Samuel 16:7 sets the heart above outward appearance, and Proverbs 31:30 says that “beauty is fleeting.” Beauty in what God made Genesis 1:31 “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was…

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