1 Timothy 2:9 — Community Reflections

1 TIMOTHY 2:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 0

“In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;”

also that the women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire — the critique of ostentatious hairstyles and jewelry reflects not mere aesthetics but the socioeconomic imbalance such adornment signified in antiquity. Kosmiōs (respectable) and sophrosynē (modesty/self-control) establish proper deportment.

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