63 Bible Verses about Transgender

Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 355 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.

Galatians 3:28 ESV / 167 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and
female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV / 115 helpful votes

“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the
assembly of the Lord.

Romans 1:24-32 ESV / 108 helpful votes

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring
of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie
and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever!
Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women
exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise
gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another,
men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty
for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to
a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. ...

Matthew 6:25 ESV / 78 helpful votes

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you
will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and
the body more than clothing?

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 78 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 5:2 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they
were created.

Matthew 19:12 ESV / 71 helpful votes

For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have
been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs
for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive
it.”

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 45 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I
praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my
soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in
secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed
substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for
me, when as yet there was none of them.

Matthew 7:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged.

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 29 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made
them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother
and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer
two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 29 helpful votes

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

1 Corinthians 6:9-20 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who
practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were
washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and by the Spirit of our God. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are
helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything. “Food is
meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and
the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord
for the body. ...

1 Corinthians 11:14-15 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Does not nature itself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace for him, but
if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For her hair is given to her for a covering.

Matthew 9:13 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call
the righteous, but sinners.”

2 Peter 2:1-3:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers
among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master
who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow
their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their
greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not
idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they
sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be
kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a
herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of
the ungodly; ...

Romans 8:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 9 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law
of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For
God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own
Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order
that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not
according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the
flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit
set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 9 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

James 3:16-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile
practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to
reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Mark 10:4-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her
away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this
commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two
shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. ...
Romans 12:1-3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be
conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by
testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and
perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of
himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each
according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Isaiah 56:4-5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things
that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a
monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting
name that shall not be cut off.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is,
seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things
that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When
Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death
therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and
covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Romans 1:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they
not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Matthew 5:44-45 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you
may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and
on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold,
the new has come.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him
the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not?
Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be
thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately,
saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming
and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you
astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead
many astray. ...

Psalm 51:6-19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret
heart. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than
snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. Hide
your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O
God, and renew a right spirit within me. ...

Deuteronomy 32:1-52 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the
tender grass, and like showers upon the herb. For I will proclaim the name of the Lord;
ascribe greatness to our God! “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are
justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. They have
dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished;
they are a crooked and twisted generation. ...

Genesis 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you
shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over
you.”

Ephesians 1:1-6:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus,
and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the
Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he
chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus
Christ, according to the purpose of his will, ...

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who
practice homosexuality,

Romans 2:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they
are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work
of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their
conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged
natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up
natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men
committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for
their error.

Jeremiah 30:1-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel:
Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. For behold, days are coming,
declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says
the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they
shall take possession of it.” These are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel
and Judah: “Thus says the Lord: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace.
...

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.”

Jude 1:1-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in
God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to
you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I
found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all
delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were
designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God
into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind
you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of
Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ...

1 Peter 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to
the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so
that your prayers may not be hindered.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning
his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be
the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the
dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to
bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an
abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had
made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in
the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees
in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst
of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the
woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will
be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon
under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was
crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in
heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads
seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the
earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that
when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is
to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his
throne, ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things
that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Ephesians 5:22-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the
wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as
the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their
husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up
for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the
word, ...

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Galatians 5:1-6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a
yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be
of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is
obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be
justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith,
we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...

Galatians 3:28-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and
female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are
Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

1 Corinthians 11:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are
from God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who
practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Acts 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all
flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see
visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;

Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be
judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.

1 Kings 15:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his
fathers had made.

Deuteronomy 23:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel
shall be a cult prostitute. You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog
into the house of the Lord your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an
abomination to the Lord your God.
Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I
am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you
lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you.
You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and
walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my
rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. ...

Exodus 30:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Take the finest spices: of liquid myrrh 500 shekels, and of
sweet-smelling cinnamon half as much, that is, 250, and 250 of aromatic cane,

Genesis 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be
called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

Genesis 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast
of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

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 2:18-22 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.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the
field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would
call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The
man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the
field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a
deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its
place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a
woman and brought her to the man.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the
seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day
from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,
because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the
generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the
Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land
and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to
rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the
earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the
heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form
and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was
hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was
light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the
darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was
evening and there was morning, the first day. ...