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1. Dress needs to be modest, not elaborate or for show.

1 Timothy 2:9-10 I also want women to dress modestly, with
decency and propriety, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or
expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women
who profess to worship God.

b; 2. Israel's women were corrected for unbecoming dress.

Isaiah 3:16-23 The LORD says, "The women of Zion are
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eyes, tripping along with mincing steps, with ornaments jingling
on their ankles. Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads
of the women of Zion; the LORD will make their scalps bald." In

~ that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and
headbands and crescent necklaces, the earrings and bracelets and
veils, the headdresses and ankle chains and sashes, the perfume
bottles and charms, the signet rings and nose rings, the fine robes
and the capes and cloaks, the purses and mirrors, and the linen

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garments and tiaras and shawls.

Concentrate on inner beauty rather than outer beauty.

:I 1 Peter 3:3-5 Your beauty should not come from outward

adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry
and fine clothes. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the

= unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth

in God's sight. For this is the way the holy women of the past who

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put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They

were submissive to their own husbands.

4. Outward beauty is fleeting.

Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive,and beauty is fleeting; but a
woman who fears the LORDis to be praised.
5. God sees the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7 The LORD does not look at the things man looks
at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at
the heart.
Luke 16:15 He said to them, "You are the ones who justify
yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What
is highly valued among men is detestable in God's sight."

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