9 Bible Verses about Adornment, Of Women
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Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD, "Seeing the daughters of Zion are become so proud, and come in with stretched out necks, and with vain wanton eyes; seeing they come in tripping so nicely with their feet: Therefore shall the Lord shave the heads of the daughters of Zion, and discover their shame." In that day shall the Lord take away the gorgeousness of their apparel, and spangles, chains, partlets,read more.
and collars, bracelets and hooves, the goodly flowered wide and broidered raiment, brushes and headbands, rings and garlands, holiday clothes and veils, kerchiefs and pins, glasses and smocks, bonnets and taches. And instead of good smell there shall be stink among them. And for their girdles there shall be loose bands. And for well set hair there shall be baldness. Instead of a stomacher, a sackcloth; and for their beauty, witheredness and sunburning.
Likewise also the women, that they array themselves in comely apparel with shamefastness, and discreet behavior, not with broided hair, other gold, or pearls, or costly array:
I decked thee with costly apparel; I put rings upon thy fingers, a chain about thy neck, spangles upon thy forehead, earrings upon thine ears, and set a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, which clothed you in purple and garments of pleasure, and bordered your raiment with ornaments of gold.
What wilt thou now do, thou being destroyed? For though thou clothest thyself with scarlet, and deckest thee with gold. Though thou paintest thy face with colors, yet shalt thou trim thyself in vain. For those that hitherto have been thy great favorers, shall abhor thee, and go about to slay thee.
Thus wast thou decked with silver and gold, and thy raiment was of fine white silk, of needle work and divers colors. Thou didst eat nothing but simnels, honey and oil: marvelous goodly wast thou, and beautiful, yea even a very Queen wast thou.
Whose apparel shall not be outward with broided hair, and hanging on of gold, other in putting on of gorgeous apparel: but let the hid man of the heart be uncorrupt, with a meek and a quiet spirit, which spirit is, before God, a thing much set by.
but with such as becometh women that profess the worshipping of God through good works.
neither be pickers, but that they show all good faithfulness, that they may do worship to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.