Are Christian Women Allowed to Wear Makeup, Earrings or Jewelry?
1) Direct Answer
Christian women should avoid makeup and ornamental jewelry, including earrings. Dress should be modest, simple, and shamefaced. A plain wedding band as a token of covenant—not as decoration—can be acceptable.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says, “Women adorn themselves in modest apparel… not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; but with good works” (1 Timothy 2:9–10). That is a clear call away from outward show.
- “Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold… but let it be the hidden man of the heart… a meek and quiet spirit” (1 Peter 3:3–4). God points us to inner beauty, not external display.
- When pride and show took over, God reproved it: the tinkling ornaments, chains, rings, nose jewels (Isaiah 3:16–24). He took them away as a judgment.
- Jezebel “painted her face” to present herself (2 Kings 9:30). Scripture never commends face paint; it ties it to a worldly, seductive spirit.
- Jacob called his house to put away strange gods—and they handed over their earrings (Genesis 35:2–4). Earrings in Scripture are often linked with idolatry and worldliness.
- Our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost; we are not our own (1 Corinthians 6:19–20). We present ourselves a living sacrifice, not conformed to the world (Romans 12:1–2).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Now notice, the apostles didn’t point women to decorate the outside, but to adorn the inside with holiness. Outward glitter draws eyes to the flesh; the Spirit draws hearts to Christ.
- If Peter says “not with… wearing of gold,” why argue for gold and glitter? If Paul says “not with… pearls,” why defend them? Show me one Scripture where God praises painted faces or flashy ornaments.
- A plain wedding band can serve as a simple token of a vow, not as adornment. But earrings and showy jewelry exist to ornament the body—exactly what the Word says not to pursue.
- You see, this isn’t harsh law; it’s love. When Christ lives within, a woman gladly chooses modesty, simplicity, and separation from the spirit of the world.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Choose the hidden beauty of a meek and quiet spirit. Lay aside makeup, earrings, and ornamental jewelry, and let your life shine with holiness. That’s the kind of adornment God honors.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
A True Sign that's overlooked
61-1112 §116
Now, Jezebel and Ahabs... Yes, sir! Why? Why do they do it? Why does them women do ... keep their hair bobbed off, and wear make-up, and go out and put on shorts when men are coming by and things like that, their husbands do it? Because they haven't got a true prophet in their pulpit to tell them the truth. They tell them, "Well, that's no different. That's all right. You don't have to do with that." You... It is the Word of the Lord! The Bible said any woman that'll put on a garment pertains to a man is an abomina...
Hear ye Him
57-0807 §18
It used to be wrong for Holiness people, and Methodists, and the people that tried to live right, the women to wear manicure, or ever what you call the stuff you put on your face. (I know that's the wrong word, but I can't never think of it.) Anyhow, it used to be wrong, but now you can't tell one from the other. It used to be wrong for the Christian women to bob their hair. Something went wrong somewhere. The Bible says it's wrong. Now, either you've got out of the harness, or your pastor got out of the will of Go...
And thy Seed shall possess the gate of His enemy
62-0121M §69
...aded, brown-eyed, blue-eyed, gray-eyed, one one way, and one the other. But if that woman is clean... Lady, there ain't a man in the country but what would take off his hat to them, if he's got an ounce of man in him (that's right), because she's... She produces what she is, and men appreciate it. So God'll appreciate a man that'll be what he is. Or men that professes Christianity, let's be a Christian filled with the Holy Ghost, with the Word of God, or forget about it. That's right. 'Cause, otherwise, you become...
The Church and its condition
56-0805 §37
And you women, not long ago, you'd go down the street... It's ridiculous to look the way the women dress today. And I'm not talking about Presbyterian and Methodist, I'm talking about you holiness women. Go down the street, and it's... I had a little cross hanging in front of my car, and somebody said to me, said, "Billy, you know that's a Catholic emblem?" I said, "When did the Catholics get the option on the cross?" Never! That's not an emblem of Catholic faith; that's the emblem of Christian faith. A Catholic fa...
Abraham restored
61-0211 §63
This nation would be better off if it had... I better not say that. All right. But anyhow, it'd be better to have three or four wives... And I'd rather stand before God with three married women, or five married women standing by my side, than to stand there with one wife, and running with another man's. Yes, sir. I'd have a better chance before God. You can't force sinners to take a Christian's duty and do that. They can't do it until they're born again. That's right. We're a long ways from being a Christian nation...