Bible Dictionary: Wives: should be Adorned: Not With Ornaments

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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 3:3
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
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Library

The Mind Clearer when Cleansed from Sin; the Ornaments of the Mind ...
... what else does He will that we should take ... into the feast with Christ who have not
adorned their tabernacle ... possess it who live chastely with their wives, and do ...
/.../chapter iv the mind clearer when.htm

On Dress.
... Thou hast adorned thy wall with the money which might have screened ... of his people
from all pride and vanity, and they should find no ... "Likewise, ye wives, be in ...
/.../orr/food for the lambs or helps for young christians/on dress.htm

Colossians iii. 18-25
... always he sets down the names, "wives, children, servants ... but one that despiseth
death, how should he be ... When thou hast excessively adorned thee, O woman, then ...
/.../homily x colossians iii 18-25.htm

V. ...
... Thus the husband should withdraw and dissuade the wife from ... please my husband," then
is she truly adorned and attired ... holy women, that he may draw wives to a ...
/.../the epistles of st peter and st jude preached and explained/chapter iii v .htm

On Dress
... they hear, nor are willing that others should: And these ... they would look prettier
if they were adorned with such ... you, O ye husbands, do not hinder your wives! ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 88 on dress.htm

Against Men who Embellish Themselves.
... he ought to exhibit in greater comeliness; and should pluck out ... but by command the
wretches are adorned for base ... to nature; women are at once wives and husbands ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter iii against men who embellish.htm

How to Use the Present Life, and the Comforts of It.
... Has the Lord adorned flowers with all the beauty ... it remaineth, that both they that
have wives be as ... Therefore, lest all things should be thrown into confusion ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/sergieff/on the christian life/chapter v how to use.htm

Ephesians v. 22-24
... Matthew 28:19.) And not simply hath He adorned her, but ... us, and not to suffer that
there should be any ... care and anxiety which always arise to wives from those ...
/.../homily xx ephesians v 22-24.htm

Pagans.
... She was richly adorned, and held a little green ... had married upwards of a hundred
wives, thirty-seven of ... instead of attaining absorption, they should become gods ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hayward/the book of religions/pagans.htm

How to Use the Present Life, and the Comforts of It.
... Has the Lord adorned flowers with all the beauty ... it remaineth, that both they that
have wives be as ... Therefore, lest all things should be thrown into confusion ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 10 how to use.htm

Subtopics

Wives

Wives of Ministers should be Exemplary

Wives: Bad: Herodias

Wives: Bad: Jezebel

Wives: Bad: Job's Wife

Wives: Bad: Michal

Wives: Bad: Samson's Wife

Wives: Bad: Sapphira

Wives: Bad: Zeresh

Wives: Duties of, to Their Husbands: To be Faithful to Them

Wives: Duties of, to Their Husbands: To be Subject to Them