Wearing Earrings

Everyday topics

Verses

10 references
  1. I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
  2. Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
  3. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
  4. You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
  5. So Aaron told them, “Take off the gold earrings that are on your wives and sons and daughters, and bring them to me.” …
  6. A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
  7. Then he added, “Let me make a request of you, that each of you give me an earring from his plunder.” (For the enemies had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
  8. So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
  9. So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
  10. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.