Sandra, a lady in her mid 40’s, has always been obsessed with beauty, often feeling that she is growing old and probably out of vogue. Her feelings of inadequacy grow whenever she watches a movie about ladies, a beauty pageant show of ladies parading the stage, or a beauty product commercial showing an image of a woman.
She takes cognizance of everything about her and deliberately makes comparisons with whatever looks like or has the tendencies of a woman. These absurd feelings gradually paved the way for low self-esteem to set into her life.
Are you a woman? Do you feel the same way or more about what Sandra is feeling? If the answer is affirmative, this article is for you. Most Women want to captivate the attention of everyone wherever they go with beauty but are that the true definition of beauty?
Bible Verses About Beauty of Woman
A beautiful woman brings good news, proclaims peace, and spreads the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A woman is the epitome of beauty and becomes more radiantly beautiful when the ways of God sanctify her.
The external beauty a woman sees admires, or detests in the mirror is transient and fleeting. However, the inner beauty permeated by the Holy Spirit and other characters worthy of emulation will blossom. Knowing internal and external beauty is necessary for a woman to build confidence, and the perspective and concept of beauty in the Bible are far from our daily interpretations.
You may disagree with me about the above postulations. Let us explore the Scriptures together to see what a woman with beauty entails.
Proverbs 14:12 (ESV) – The End Of Bad Beauty
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
Revelation 21:2 (ESV) – The Beautiful Bride Of God
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Matthew 5:28 (ESV) – Do Not Be Lustful
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Proverbs 11:22 (ESV) – Have Discretion
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.
Proverbs 31:30 (ESV) – Beauty Is Vain Without Fear Of God
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Leviticus 21:5 (ESV) – Do Not Pierce Your Body
They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.
Leviticus 19:19 (ESV) – Keep The Lord’s Commandments
“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.
Exodus 28:42 (ESV) – Dress Modestly
You shall make for them linen undergarments to cover their naked flesh. They shall reach from the hips to the thighs;
Genesis 2:18 (ESV) – Find A Partner
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
1 Timothy 2:9 (ESV) – Be Respectable
Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,
Leviticus 20:13 (ESV)
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
1 Peter 3:5 (ESV)
For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV)
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
1 Timothy 6:3-4 (ESV)
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
1 Peter 3:3-4 (ESV)
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
1 John 4:1 (ESV)
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
1 John 2:11 (ESV)
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
James 1:17 (ESV)
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Romans 1:30 (ESV)
Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Acts 20:27 (ESV)
For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Song of Solomon 1:8 (ESV)
If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.
1 Samuel 16:7 (ESV)
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”
Hebrews 13:4 (ESV)
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
1 Timothy 1:9 (ESV)
Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
Matthew 5:22 (ESV)
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.
Deuteronomy 22:5 (ESV)
“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.
Romans 12:10 (ESV)
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.
John 14:6 (ESV)
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jeremiah 17:9 (ESV)
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 (ESV)
The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
2 Samuel 1:25-26 (ESV)
“How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! “Jonathan lies slain on your high places. I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12 (ESV)
“When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts, then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
Deuteronomy 21:10-14 (ESV)
“When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.
Deuteronomy 20:16-17 (ESV)
But in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, but you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded,
Genesis 1:28 (ESV)
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
1 Timothy 3:6 (ESV)
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Ephesians 6:17 (ESV)
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
1 Corinthians 7:5 (ESV)
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Romans 3:23 (ESV)
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 1:25 (ESV)
Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Conclusion
Every woman was stitched together in the womb by God, our Creator, who made them beautifully. God rates the beauty of a woman by the content of her heart rather than the way they appear.
God initially perceives everyone as a sinner, irrespective of gender, but Christ died for us. God did not love us because of how we looked or because we contained anything valuable that needed to be saved.
God adores a woman, and Christ’s blood covers them when we are forgiven. When God looks at a woman, he no longer sees a wayward, lost soul in a beautified body but a justified being saved by grace.
