Bible verses about "modesty" | Coverdale

²⁷ Ye haue herde, how it was sayde to them of olde tyme: Thou shalt not committe aduoutrie. ²⁸ But I saye vnto you, that whosoeuer loketh on a wife lustinge after her, hath committed aduoutrie with hir already in his hert.

⁶ But who so offendeth one of these litle ones which beleue in me, it were better for him, that a mylstone were hanged aboute his neck, and he drowned in the depth of the see. ⁷ Wo vnto the worlde because of slauders. Yee there must slaunders come: but wo vnto that man, by whom slaunder commeth.

²³ and vpon those membres of the body which we thinke least honest, put we most honestie on: and oure vncomly partes haue most beutye on.

³¹ Therfore whether ye eate or drynke, or what so euer ye do, do all to ye prayse of God.

¹⁶ for all that is in the worlde (namely the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pryde of life) is not of the father, but of the worlde.

³ Whose apparell shal not be outwarde wt broyded heer, & hanginge on of golde, or in puttynge on of gorgious araye,

⁵ Likewyse ye yoger submytte youre selues vnto the elder. Submytte youre selues euery man one to another, and knyt yor selues together in lowlynes of mynde. For God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace to the humble. ⁶ Submytte yor selues therfore vnder the mightie hande of God, that he maye exalte you whan the tyme is come.

⁵ A woman shall not weere yt which pertayneth to a man, nether shal a man put on womans raymet. For who so euer doth soch, is abhominacion vnto ye LORDE yi God.

⁷ But ye LORDE sayde vnto Samuel: loke not vpon his countenaunce, ner vpon the tallnesse of his person, For I iudge not after the sighte of man. A man hath respecte vnto the thinge that is before his eyes, but the LORDE loketh vpon the hert.

²⁸ But I saye vnto you, that whosoeuer loketh on a wife lustinge after her, hath committed aduoutrie with hir already in his hert.

⁸ I wil therfore that men praye in all places, liftinge vp pure hades without wrath or dowtynge. ⁹ Likewyse also the wemen, that they araye them selues in comly apparell with shamfastnes and discrete behaueor, not with broyded heer, or golde, or perles, or costly araye: ¹⁰ but with soch as it becommeth weme that professe godlynes thorow good workes.

¹ Likewyse let the wyues be in subieccion to their hussbandes, that euen they which beleue not the worde, maye without the worde be wonne by ye couersacion of the wyues, ² whan they beholde yor pure conuersacion in feare. ³ Whose apparell shal not be outwarde wt broyded heer, & hanginge on of golde, or in puttynge on of gorgious araye, ⁴ but let ye inwarde ma of ye hert be vncorrupte wt a meke & a quyete sprete, which before God is moch set by.

²² A fayre woman without discrete maners, is like a rynge of golde in a swynes snoute.

³⁰ As for fauor, it is disceatfull, and beutie is a vayne thinge: but a woman that feareth the LORDE, she is worthy to be praysed.

³ Whose apparell shal not be outwarde wt broyded heer, & hanginge on of golde, or in puttynge on of gorgious araye, ⁴ but let ye inwarde ma of ye hert be vncorrupte wt a meke & a quyete sprete, which before God is moch set by.

⁹ Likewyse also the wemen, that they araye them selues in comly apparell with shamfastnes and discrete behaueor, not with broyded heer, or golde, or perles, or costly araye: ¹⁰ but with soch as it becommeth weme that professe godlynes thorow good workes.

⁹ Likewyse also the wemen, that they araye them selues in comly apparell with shamfastnes and discrete behaueor, not with broyded heer, or golde, or perles, or costly araye:

¹⁹ Or knowe ye not that youre body is the temple of the holy goost? Whom ye haue of God, and are not youre awne? ²⁰ For ye are dearly boughte. Prayse ye God therfore in yor body & in yor sprete, which are Gods.