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Bible Verses about “covering”

The Bible contains 46 verses about covering across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Proverbs 3:5
1028 votes

“Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don't lean on your own understanding.”

Proverbs 3:6
895 votes

“In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”

1 Corinthians 11:14
447 votes

“Doesn't even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him?”

1 Corinthians 11:3
380 votes

“But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.”

1 Corinthians 11:15
363 votes

“But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.”

Psalms 91:3
336 votes

“For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.”

1 Corinthians 11:1
321 votes

“Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.”

1 Corinthians 11:6
315 votes

“For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.”

1 Corinthians 11:5
305 votes

“But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonors her head. For it is one and the same thing as if she were shaved.”

1 Corinthians 11:2
304 votes

“Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.”

1 Corinthians 11:12
276 votes

“For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.”

1 Corinthians 11:10
272 votes

“For this cause the woman ought to have authority on her head, because of the angels.”

1 Corinthians 11:16
269 votes

“But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies.”

1 Corinthians 11:9
263 votes

“for neither was man created for the woman, but woman for the man.”

1 Corinthians 11:8
260 votes

“For man is not from woman, but woman from man;”

1 Corinthians 11:7
259 votes

“For a man indeed ought not to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.”

1 Corinthians 11:24
259 votes

“When he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me."”

1 Corinthians 11:13
258 votes

“Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?”

1 Corinthians 11:26
258 votes

“For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.”

1 Corinthians 11:4
257 votes

“Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.”

1 Corinthians 11:25
257 votes

“In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me."”

1 Corinthians 11:28
253 votes

“But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.”

1 Corinthians 11:11
252 votes

“Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 11:27
249 votes

“Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.”

1 Corinthians 11:29
242 votes

“For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.”

1 Corinthians 11:30
237 votes

“For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.”

1 Corinthians 11:23
236 votes

“For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.”

1 Corinthians 11:22
219 votes

“What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.”

1 Corinthians 11:34
218 votes

“But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest your coming together be for judgment. The rest I will set in order whenever I come.”

1 Corinthians 11:31
214 votes

“For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.”

1 Corinthians 11:20
213 votes

“When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord's supper that you eat.”

1 Corinthians 11:19
212 votes

“For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.”

1 Corinthians 11:32
212 votes

“But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.”

1 Corinthians 11:18
211 votes

“For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.”

1 Corinthians 11:17
209 votes

“But in giving you this command, I don't praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.”

1 Corinthians 11:21
207 votes

“For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.”

1 Corinthians 11:33
207 votes

“Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.”

Proverbs 28:13
126 votes

“He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”

Genesis 3:21
103 votes

“Yahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.”

Proverbs 10:12
79 votes

“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.”

Psalms 28:7
76 votes

“Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.”

Psalms 5:12
40 votes

“For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield. For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, upon the eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm by David.”

1 Peter 1:19
37 votes

“but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;”

Psalms 32:7
31 votes

“You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.”

Hebrews 2:14
27 votes

“Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,”

1 Peter 1:18
27 votes

“knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,”

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