Physical Beauty

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

‘For in him we live, and move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. — read the full passage →

Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king. — read the full passage →

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God’s angels in heaven.

Let the favor of the Lord our God be on us; establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of our hands.

When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. — read the full passage →

At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. — read the full passage →

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. Lover — read the full passage →

My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger; — read the full passage →

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Yahweh sent Nathan to David. He came to him, and said to him, “There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. — read the full passage →

At the return of the year, at the time when kings go out, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. — read the full passage →