Then the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,

“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity,
And clothe yourself with honor and majesty.

“I will punish her for the days of the Baals
When she used to offer sacrifices to them
And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares the Lord.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought charges to the governor against Paul.

Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly garments,

not pilfering, but showing all good faith so that they will adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in every respect.

For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands;