1 Peter 3:4

True beauty is the inner person of the heart, adorned with a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God's sight. God treasures lasting inner character over outward appearance.

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• Col 3:12Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• 1 Sam 16:7But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.
• Rom 2:29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
• Matt 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
• Titus 3:2To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
• Matt 23:26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
• Rom 7:22For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
• Eph 4:2With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
• 2 Cor 4:16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
• 1 Th 4:11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
• 1 Pet 3:15But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
• Ps 25:9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
• Ps 147:10–11He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
• 1 Tim 2:2For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
• Jas 3:13–17Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
• Isa 57:15For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
• Luke 11:40Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
• Matt 5:5Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
• 2 Th 3:12Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
• Jas 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
• 2 Tim 2:25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
• Isa 29:19The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
• Eph 4:22–24That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• Ps 147:6The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.
• Ps 149:4For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
• Ps 45:13The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
• Ps 51:6Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
• Gal 5:23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
• 1 Pet 1:23Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
• Ps 131:2Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
• Col 3:3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
• Rom 6:6Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
• Col 3:9–10Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
• Isa 11:4But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
• Luke 16:15And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
• 2 Cor 10:1Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
• Jer 51:59The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. And this Seraiah was a quiet prince.
• Matt 21:5Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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