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Want to know what the Bible says about Anointing? Here are 106 Bible verses about Anointing from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Proverbs 21:20 NIV
The wise store up choice food and olive oil,
    but fools gulp theirs down.
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Psalm 45:7 NIV
You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
    therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
    by anointing you with the oil of joy.
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1 Samuel 16:13 NIV
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David. Samuel then went to Ramah.
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Song of Solomon 1:3 NIV
Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
    your name is like perfume poured out.
    No wonder the young women love you!
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Matthew 26:12 NIV
When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
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Luke 23:56 NIV
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.
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Acts 10:38 NIV
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.
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Luke 7:37 NIV
A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume.
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Psalm 92:10 NIV
You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox;
    fine oils have been poured on me.
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John 11:2 NIV
(This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)
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Ruth 3:3 NIV
Wash, put on perfume, and get dressed in your best clothes. Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.
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2 Chronicles 28:15 NIV
The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.
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Esther 2:12 NIV
Before a young woman’s turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.
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Isaiah 57:9 NIV
You went to Molek with olive oil
    and increased your perfumes.
You sent your ambassadors far away;
    you descended to the very realm of the dead!
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Isaiah 1:6 NIV
From the sole of your foot to the top of your head
    there is no soundness
only wounds and welts
    and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged
    or soothed with olive oil.
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Isaiah 21:5 NIV
They set the tables,
    they spread the rugs,
    they eat, they drink!
Get up, you officers,
    oil the shields!
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Mark 16:1 NIV
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body.
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Proverbs 27:9 NIV
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart,
    and the pleasantness of a friend
    springs from their heartfelt advice.
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Amos 6:6 NIV
You drink wine by the bowlful
    and use the finest lotions,
    but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
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Psalm 23:5 NIV
You prepare a table before me
    in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
    my cup overflows.
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