Vietnam Evangelical Covenant Church – One definition of beauty at Dictionary.com is “a beautiful person, especially a woman.” I agree that when we think of human beauty, we often think of women, whom we sometimes call the fairer sex. The Bible has many verses about a woman’s beauty. A beautiful woman may be defined by physical features, but Scripture shows us much more about beauty defined by character.
Today’s world often measures a woman’s beauty by appearance, weight or fashion. Scripture looks deeper: a woman’s beauty flows from a heart that fears God, wise words and a life of love. Here are 20 Bible verses about a woman’s beauty. Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB).
Proverbs 31 is a whole chapter in which King Lemuel’s mother teaches him about the ideal woman. She teaches him to look for the beautiful qualities in the woman he marries, because God created every woman with her own beauty.
Let’s look at 20 Bible verses about a woman’s beauty:
20 Bible Verses About a Woman’s Beauty
The Character of a Beautiful Woman
Pleasant
1. “A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant drip” (Proverbs 19:13)
2. “Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.” (Proverbs 21:9)
3. “Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered woman.” (Proverbs 21:19)
Noble and capable
4. “A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.” (Proverbs 31:10)
Faithful and trustworthy
5. “In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.” (1 Timothy 3:11)
Gracious and honored
6. “A gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.” (Proverbs 11:16)
A helper
7. “The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.” … And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him. And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:18, 22–24)
Kind and generous
8. “She opens her arms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for they are all clothed in scarlet.” (Proverbs 31:20–21)
9. “She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.” (Proverbs 31:26)
Respectful
10. “But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.” (1 Corinthians 11:3)
11. “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior. … However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” (Ephesians 5:22–23, 33)
12. “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.” (Colossians 3:18)
13. “Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.” (Titus 2:2–5)
14. “Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if some of them do not believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they observe your chaste and reverent conduct.” (1 Peter 3:1–2)
Wise
15. “Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.” (Proverbs 14:1)
Beautiful Women in the Bible
16. “As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.” … So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.” (Genesis 12:11, 14)
17. “Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.” (Genesis 24:16)
18. “But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”” (Ruth 1:16–17)
19. “And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.” (Esther 2:7)
20. “How beautiful you are, my darling, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.” (Song of Songs 4:1)
Cultivating a Woman’s Beauty According to God’s Word
These verses don’t deny outward beauty. Song of Songs still celebrates charm, and Esther is described as lovely in appearance. But Scripture always places a woman’s beauty in relation to character: gentleness, kindness, diligence and above all the fear of the LORD. Looks change with the years, while those qualities shine brighter over time.
If you are a woman, choose one verse from this list to meditate on this week and ask God to grow that quality in you. If you are a husband, father or brother in the church, use these verses to encourage and honor the beauty of the women around you, not only with compliments about appearance but by valuing their hearts.
You may also like: 15 Quotes by Godly Women and Bible Verses About Marriage.
Prayer
Lord, thank You for creating woman in Your image. Help us see a woman’s beauty as You see it, and grow in every sister a gentle, wise heart that fears You. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Article: Thoa Trần
Adapted from: WhatChristiansWantToKnow.com
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