Bible verses about "adornment" | Thomson

¹ In like manner ye wives, be subject to your own husbands, that if any of them disbelieve the word they may by the deportment of their wives, without a word, be won over, ² when they see your reverential, chaste behaviour. ³ And let your adorning be, not that which is external by plaiting the hair with appendages of gold, nor finery of dress; ⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is highly precious in the sight of God. ⁵ For thus, in former times, the holy women who trusted in God adorned themselves, submitting to their husbands, ⁶ [as Sarah, whose daughters you are, obeyed Abraham, calling him lord] doing what was right, and alarmed by no terror.

²⁵ Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; nor about your body, what you shall wear. Is not life a greater gift than food; and the body, than raiment? ²⁶ Observe those birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor lay up in granaries; yet your heavenly father feedeth them. Are not you much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Besides, which of you can by his anxiety prolong his life one hour? ²⁸ And with respect to raiment, why are you anxious? Consider those lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin: ²⁹ yet I affirm, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ³⁰ Now if God thus arrayeth the herbage which is today in the field, and tomorrow to be cast into a furnace, will he not much more clothe you, O ye mistrustful? ³¹ Therefore be not anxious, saying, What shall we eat; or, what shall we drink; or, with what shall we be clothed? ³² For about all such things the nations are solicitous: for your heavenly father knoweth that you have need of all these things. ³³ But seek first the kingdom of God, and the righteousness required by him, and all those things will be superadded to you.

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of a holy spirit in you, which you have from God? Indeed you are not your own; ²⁰ for you have been bought with a price. Therefore glorify God with your body and with your spirit which are his.

⁵ A woman shall not wear what appertaineth to man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for every one who doth such things is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

⁹ in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in comely apparel, with bashful modesty; not with curls, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; ¹⁰ but with good works, as it becometh women who profess a reverence for God.

³ And let your adorning be, not that which is external by plaiting the hair with appendages of gold, nor finery of dress; ⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is highly precious in the sight of God.