The Importance of Countenance

 

 

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Coun·te·nance

 

NOUN

1.          a person's face or facial expression:

 

Genesis 4:6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

 

Genesis 31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

 

Genesis 31:5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

 

Exodus 23:3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.

 

Numbers 6:26 The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

 

Deuteronomy 28:50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

 

Judges 13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

 

1 Samuel 17:42 And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance.

 

2 Samuel 14:2 And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

 

2 Kings 8:11 And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

 

Nehemiah 2:2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

 

Job 14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

 

Job 29:24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

 

Psalms 4:6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

 

Psalms 11:7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

 

Psalms 80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

 

Psalms 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.

 

Psalms 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

 

Proverbs 15:13 A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

Proverbs 16:15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

 

Proverbs 25:23 The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

 

Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

 

Ecclesiastes 7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

 

Song of Solomon 2:14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

 

Song of Solomon 5:15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

 

Isaiah 3:9 The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves

 

Ezekiel 27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

 

Daniel 1:13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee, and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the king's meat: and as thou seest, deal with thy servants.

 

Daniel 5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

 

Daniel 7:28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

 

Daniel 8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.

 

Matthew 6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

 

Matthew 28:3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

 

Luke 9:29 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.

 

Acts 2:28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

 

2 Corinthians 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written [and] engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:

 

Revelations 1:16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.