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Re: What is Biblical Modesty?
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Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*
I've seen several posts that reference 'biblical modesty'. What exactly is biblical modesty? What does the Bible tell us about dressing modestly?
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The only place I know of is in I Timothy where it says to wear "modest apparel" with "modest" meaning "decorous", which I understand as "in keeping with good etiquette/manners." You could probably expand on that by including the terms "shamefacedness" and "sobriety" when you try to decide what is modest and acceptable.
That's the only biblical modesty I know of. Modesty is subjective and relative to some extent, but then again, most of us know a brash, immodest woman when we see one. To that end, "immodest" has as much to do with attitude as it does with particular items of clothing, and the same is true for modesty.
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