Friday, March 31, 2006

modesty, shamefacedness, sobriety

"In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array. But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works." {I Timothy 2:9-10}

"Modesty: the inner self-governed, rooted in proper understanding of one's self before God, which outwardly displays itself in humility and purity from a genuine love for God, rather than in self-glorification and self-advertisement. Modesty will then not publicly expose itself in sinful nakedness.
Shamefacedness: a moral distaste from all that is unseemly, a rejection of even the appearance of overstepping of the limits of womanly reserve.
Sobriety: inner judgment produced in the believer by the Scripture and the Spirit of God--restraints on appetites."

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