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Summary
- The color white symbolizes purity, holiness, righteousness, and God’s divine nature in the Bible.
- White represents cleansing and forgiveness, illustrated in Isaiah’s promise of sins becoming “as white as snow.”
- In the New Testament, white reflects Christ’s glory during His transfiguration and the victory of the redeemed in Revelation.
- While commonly positive, white can also symbolize hypocrisy, as seen in Jesus’ condemnation of the Pharisees as “whitewashed tombs.”
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