Bible Dictionary: Being Modest

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Greek

53. hagnos -- free from ceremonial defilement, holy, sacred
... even within (even down to the center of one's being); not with ... From the same as hagios;
properly, clean, ie (figuratively) innocent, modest, perfect -- chaste ...
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4998. sophron -- of sound mind, self-controlled
... Definition: of sound mind, self-controlled, temperate, sober-minded, modest, chaste. ...
correctly (divinely) balanced (which is far more than being "the middle of ...
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Topical Bible Verses

1 Timothy 2:9
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with modesty and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
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1 Peter 3:1-22
Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
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Deuteronomy 22:5
The woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination to the LORD your God.
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Library

Argument: the Charge of Our Entertainments Being Polluted with ...
... Chapter XXXI."Argument: The Charge of Our Entertainments Being Polluted with Incest,
is Entirely ... The Banquets of Christians are Not Only Modest, But Temperate ...
/.../felix/the octavius of minucius felix/chapter xxxi argument the charge of.htm

Confusion.
... It is the very material out of which all other goodness is made; and those who laugh
at, or torment, young people for being modest and bashful, are doing the ...
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At this Period of Time we Think Esther and Judith Lived...
... But she, more prudent than the foolish king, and being too modest to make a show
of her person before the eyes of men, refused compliance with his orders. ...
/.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter xii at this period.htm

Such Outward Adornments Meretricious, and Therefore Unsuitable to ...
... prevent my spirit from being wounded by shamelessness through (the channel of) my
ears? Grant that it be lawful to assume the appearance of a modest woman: [260 ...
/.../on the apparel of women/chapter xii such outward adornments meretricious.htm

Of the Discipline and Advantage of Chastity.
... Chastity is always modest, being the mother of innocency; chastity is ever adorned
with modesty alone, then rightly conscious of its own beauty if it is ...
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To Sister Daniella of Orvieto Clothed with the Habit of Saint ...
... It loves him as a being created by the Highest Eternal Father. ... It imposes restraint
on all the members of the body, that they be modest and temperate: let the ...
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Desire to Please.
... heart; that, on the contrary, its development is due to the process of a constant
and almost insensible growth; being characteristically modest, calm, reserved ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter xvi desire to please.htm

Letter xiv. Dress.
... not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon." "And being found in him ... then,
may be summed up in the following particulars: 1. A modest covering for our ...
/.../newcomb/a practical directory for young christian females/letter xiv dress.htm

Being Made Archbishop of Armagh, He Suffers Many Troubles. Peace ...
... But he, modest and gentle as he was, answered her nothing;[480] but the Lord ... judgement
of the Lord, and crying out many times that she was being suffocated by ...
/.../chapter iv being made archbishop.htm

The Dove of God
... of love,' is therefore 'the Spirit of power.' The true type of Christian character,
which the gospel has brought into being, looks modest, inconspicuous and ...
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