Bible Verses About Perfume And Christian Modesty

In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

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Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

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And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD.

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But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

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All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

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The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

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Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

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And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

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Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

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While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

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Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

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Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.

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Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

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And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

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The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

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Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

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And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

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And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

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But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

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And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

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Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

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Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

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Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

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Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

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