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Bible Verses About Countenance

This noindex topical Bible draft for Countenance was seeded from the public-domain reference inventory in Nave's Topical Bible. It stores Scripture references and source provenance only, not copied competitor commentary or modern editorial text.

Before publishing, an editor should verify the passage set against THF Bible tools, choose the clearest anchor passages, remove weak or duplicate references, add early Christian evidence where available, and connect the page to relevant lessons, courses, videos, Strong's data, interlinear study, and cross-reference tools. The source inventory included 10 topic entries and produced 28 parsed verse references for review.

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28 references

Supporting Passages

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

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If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

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There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

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For thou hast made him most blessed for ever: thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy countenance.

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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

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A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

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A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

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And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

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But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

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The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

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Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

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The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

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And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

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And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

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And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

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Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

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And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

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Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

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All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

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And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

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Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

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And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them.

And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai. And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face. But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

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But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

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And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

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And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.

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