Countenance

27 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

9 sections

Angry

Proverbs 25:23 As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.

Job 29:24 If I smiled at them, they did not believe it; the light of my countenance was precious.
Psalm 4:6 Many ask, “Who can show us the good?” Shine the light of Your face upon us, O LORD.
Psalm 21:6 For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
Psalm 44:3 For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
Proverbs 15:13 A joyful heart makes a cheerful countenance, but sorrow of the heart crushes the spirit.
Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

Deuteronomy 28:50 a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
Daniel 8:23 In the latter part of their reign, when the rebellion has reached its full measure, an insolent king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.

Genesis 4:5 but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.
Isaiah 3:9 The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.

Psalm 42:11 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Psalm 43:5 Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

2 Kings 5:1 Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
Psalm 10:4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Genesis 31:2 And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
Genesis 31:5 and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.

1 Samuel 1:18 “May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began to eat, and her face was no longer downcast.
Nehemiah 2:2–3 so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear …
Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
Ezekiel 27:35 All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
Daniel 1:15 And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.
Daniel 5:6 his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

Exodus 34:29–35 And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD. …
2 Corinthians 3:7 Now if the ministry of death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at the face of Moses because of its fleeting glory,
2 Corinthians 3:13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
Luke 9:29 And as He was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became radiantly white.