3 Bible Verses about Church Dress Code

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1 Timothy 2:9-10

in like manner also that the women dress themselves in decent apparel, with modesty and sobriety; not with plaited tresses, or gold, or pearls, or very costly clothing, but as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

James 2:1-4

MY brethren, hold not the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus shewing a respect for persons. For if there come into your congregation a man with a gold ring, and in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in a sordid garb; and ye fix your eyes upon him who bears the splendid robe, and say to him, Sit thou here in an honourable place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:read more.
are you not thus partial among yourselves, and form your decision from bad reasonings?

1 Peter 3:1-5

LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if some obey not the word, by their wives' conduct without the word, they may be won over; being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity. Whose adorning let it not be that exterior one of braided locks, and golden trimmings, and dresses put on with nicety;read more.
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, with that incorruptible ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God highly valuable. For so in times of old the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands;

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