What Does the Bible Say About Long Sleeves?

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“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.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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,

Proverbs 31:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.

1 John 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

Romans 14:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

2 Samuel 13:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves, for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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.”

1 John 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. ...

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. ...

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

Galatians 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 7:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

Acts 12:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat upon the throne, and delivered an oration to them. And the people were shouting, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

John 5:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Mark 12:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Amos 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom. So I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the strongholds of Kerioth, and Moab shall die amid uproar, amid shouting and the sound of the trumpet; I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes with him,” says the Lord. Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of the Lord, and have not kept his statutes, but their lies have led them astray, those after which their fathers walked. So I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the strongholds of Jerusalem.” ...

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Genesis 37:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors.

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

37 Bible Verses about Long Sleeves

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 14:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Samuel 13:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 12:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 5:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 12:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Amos 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 37:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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37 Bible Verses about Long Sleeves

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Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 5:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 14:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Samuel 13:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 12:21-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 17:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 5:3-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 4:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 12:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 28:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Amos 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 37:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes