Our world is obsessed with its standard of beauty. Women consistently report feeling inadequate after watching a commercial for a beauty product that features a highly altered image of a woman.
What does the Bible say about Women’s Beauty? Discover the top Bible verses about Women’s Beauty from the Old and New Testaments. May you find some insight from these related scripture quotes!
The Bible teaches that men are more valuable than women
The Bible clearly teaches that He created men and women equal in value, yet unique in form and function. Unfortunately, many interpret these male/female distinctions as a hierarchical difference in our worth. However, both man and woman are made in the image of God. Man is not fully like God. Woman is not fully like God. Yet, together, we paint a glorious picture of God’s likeness. Both play a vital role in bringing Him glory. Yet, especially at face value and without this understanding of our uniqueness in God’s eyes, there are many verses that are difficult to reconcile with the reality of a God who loves and values men and women equally.
There are multiple Old Testament laws and narratives that seem to exercise harshness toward women and promote misogyny and authoritarian abuse. For example, there are severe punishments for a woman caught in adultery, and none prohibiting polygamy, while accounts of rape, abuse, neglect, and even the murder of women by “men of God” that seem to go unpunished. We need to understand this: just because abuse and inequities are recorded in the Bible, doesn’t mean it gets God’s stamp of moral approval. Quite the opposite, in fact. There are many stories in Scripture that are meant to point us to the absolute wrongness of the situation and make us want to cry out, “Disgusting! Injustice! God, help us!
we see a steady thread of God’s intentional choice and good plan to include and honor women. In each and every historical period represented within the biblical world, it was normal for women to be oppressed, neglected, and objectified as property. It is with this as the backdrop that God shockingly (to those of that day), consistently, and purposefully invites women to be part of His redemptive plan to rescue the world from their sin. If we were to list out all the biblical accounts as evidence for one or the other (with the proper interpretive context in mind): pro-women vs. anti-women, pro-women wins by a landslide.
What does the Bible say about beauty
(Proverbs 3:15)
“She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.”
(Psalm 8:5)
“Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.”
(Genesis 1:27)
“God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
(Song of Songs 1:15-16)
“How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves. 16 How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.”
(Song of Solomon 2:10)
“My beloved spoke to me: “Get up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come on.”
What Makes Something Beautiful, According to Scripture
The Lord Himself is full of splendor and magnificence. Certainly, everything He has created declares His glory. Scripture affirms that God himself is beautiful and beauty is something that comes from being in line with God.
(2 Corinthians 3:18)
“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
(Psalm 34:5)
“Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.”
(Matthew 6:25)
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?”
(2 Corinthians 4:16)
“That’s why we are not discouraged. No, even if outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are being renewed each and every day.”
(Matthew 5:8)
“How blessed are those who are pure in heart, because it is they who will see God!”
