What Shall I Wear

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Modesty

• Genesis 37-10

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Biblical Examples

• Adam Eves coverings Genesis 37-10, 21
• Priests clothing Exodus 2842
• And you shall make for them linen trousers to
  cover their nakedness they shall reach from the
  waist to the thighs.

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Biblical Examples

• Adam Eves coverings Genesis 37-10, 21
• Priests clothing Exodus 2842
• Shameful to expose nakedness Isaiah 472-3
• Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your
  veil, Take off the skirt, Uncover the thigh, Pass
  through the rivers. Your nakedness shall be
  uncovered, Yes, your shame will be seen I will
  take vengeance, And I will not arbitrate with a
  man.

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Biblical Examples

• Adam Eves coverings Genesis 37-10, 21
• Priests clothing Exodus 2842
• Shameful to expose nakedness Rev 318
• I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in
  the fire, that you may be rich and white
  garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame
  of your nakedness may not be revealed and anoint
  your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.

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Biblical Examples

• Adam Eves coverings Genesis 37-10, 21
• Priests clothing Exodus 2842
• Shameful to expose nakedness Isaiah 472-3, Rev
  318

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Warnings

• Must not provide opportunity for lust
• Condemned by God Romans 1313-14
• Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in
  revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and
  lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord
  Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the
  flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

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Warnings

• Must not provide opportunity for lust
• Condemned by God Romans 1313-14
• Warned against adultery in the heart
  Matthew 527-30
• Both parties guilty Proverbs 76-27

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Biblical Guidelines

• Clothing must be consistent with godliness
  1 Timothy 29-10
• In like manner also, that the women adorn
  themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and
  moderation, not with braided hair or gold or
  pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper
  for women professing godliness, with good works.

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Biblical Guidelines

• Clothing must be consistent with godliness
  Jeremiah 812
• Were they ashamed when they had committed
  abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed,
  Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they
  shall fall among those who fall In the time of
  their punishment They shall be cast down," says
  the LORD.

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Biblical Guidelines

• Clothing must be consistent with godliness
  1 Timothy 29-10, Jeremiah 812
• Excess, rather than adornment, is condemned
• Dress should be proper and suitable
• A good influence is valuable 1 Peter 31-6
• Emphasis is on the adorning of inner self
• Gentle, quiet spirit pleasing to God