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The Way We Dress
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In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing; — read the full passage →
A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
“‘You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; — read the full passage →
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature. — read the full passage →
because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?” — read the full passage →
You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
It will happen in the day of Yahweh’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king’s sons, and all those who are clothed with foreign clothing.
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →
But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.
Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
Yahweh God made coats of animal skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.
The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living. — read the full passage →
If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.
You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
But what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are gorgeously dressed, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. — read the full passage →
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.
for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?
“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? — read the full passage →
seeing your pure behavior in fear. — read the full passage →
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →
For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,
Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
Abstain from every form of evil.
Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.
Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →
But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringesof their garments,
“Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. — read the full passage →
When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?” — read the full passage →
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →
The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold. — read the full passage →
Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.
But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →
Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. — read the full passage →
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →
You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother. — read the full passage →
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in; — read the full passage →
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting. — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, — read the full passage →
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers. — read the full passage →
When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →
not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from your midst, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. — read the full passage →
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