The Way We Dress

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price, — read the full passage →

`The habiliments of a man are not on a woman, nor doth a man put on the garment of a woman, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> any one doing these.

`And a cutting for the soul ye do not put in your flesh; and a writing, a cross-mark, ye do not put on you; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

The grace <FI>is<Fi> false, and the beauty <FI>is<Fi> vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

And, lo, a woman to meet him--(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

`Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, And they walk stretching out the neck, And deceiving <FI>with<Fi> the eyes, Walking and mincing they go, And with their feet they make a tinkling, — read the full passage →

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect; — read the full passage →

because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.' — read the full passage →

`And make thou for them linen trousers to cover the naked flesh: they are from the loins even unto the thighs;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Strength and honour <FI>are<Fi> her clothing, And she rejoiceth at a latter day.

whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And it hath come to pass, In the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, That I have laid a charge on the heads, And on sons of the king, And on all putting on strange clothing.

And Jehovah saith unto Samuel, `Look not unto his appearance, and unto the height of his stature, for I have rejected him; for <FI>it is<Fi> not as man seeth--for man looketh at the eyes, and Jehovah looketh at the heart.'

Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

And Jehovah God doth make to the man and to his wife coats of skin, and doth clothe them.

And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living. — read the full passage →

`But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

`Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.

and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

but--which becometh women professing godly piety--through good works.

but what have ye gone forth to see? a man in soft garments clothed? lo, they in splendid apparellings, and living in luxury, are in the houses of kings!

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple, — read the full passage →

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness. — read the full passage →

And the serpent hath been subtile above every beast of the field which Jehovah God hath made, and he saith unto the woman, `Is it true that God hath said, Ye do not eat of every tree of the garden?' — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

but--the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price,

for ye were bought with a price; glorify, then, God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

and he who is making a difference, if he may eat, hath been condemned, because <FI>it is<Fi> not of faith; and all that <FI>is<Fi> not of faith is sin.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind--sayings of thy mouth? — read the full passage →

having beheld your pure behaviour in fear, — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

take heed, then, lest the light that <FI>is<Fi> in thee be darkness;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service; — read the full passage →

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness;

A ring of gold in the nose of a sow--A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

Followers of me become ye, as I also <FI>am<Fi> of Christ. — read the full passage →

`And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `O tender and delicate one.' — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them, — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

there is not here Jew or Greek, there is not here servant nor freeman, there is not here male and female, for all ye are one in Christ Jesus;

And Jehovah God calleth unto the man, and saith to him, `Where <FI>art<Fi> thou?' — read the full passage →

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

the wife over her own body hath not authority, but the husband; and, in like manner also, the husband over his own body hath not authority, but the wife.

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

All glory <FI>is<Fi> the daughter of the king within, Of gold-embroidered work <FI>is<Fi> her clothing. — read the full passage →

and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they <FI>are<Fi> naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.

And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching; — read the full passage →

let your forbearance be known to all men; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> near;

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

`And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast,

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

`Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid; — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother; — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment, — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning; — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

manifested that ye are a letter of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not in the tablets of stone, but in fleshy tablets of the heart,

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves; — read the full passage →

Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods. — read the full passage →

And Jehu cometh in to Jezreel, and Jezebel hath heard, and putteth her eyes in paint and maketh right her head, and looketh out through the window.

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

`A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee--unto him ye hearken; — read the full passage →