What should christian women wear

It means not drawing attention to yourself, or making yourself the focus. It means being demure or understated. This is a heart issue. Are your clothes drawing attention to you and your agenda, or is your heart and life pointing people toward Jesus? I mean, seriously. I can wear a turtleneck and ankle length skirt much more conveniently than I can wear self-control.

It also says not to adorn yourself so that people look at you or to spend excessively on what you wear. But I do think that it means not to waste your time and money on something as non-eternal as your appearance.

Not at all. It is, however, saying to choose those things with wisdom. So pray about it. Again, it comes back to your heart. There is a way that is proper for those who confess godliness. It has to do with pointing people toward Jesus and not drawing attention to yourself.

Your choice of outfit only matters if it pulls the focus off of the Jesus in you and on to you. What really matters is that you are walking the walk. The question of proper dress for women has been of interest to many.

Actually, God's guidelines regarding clothing and dress are very general. God expects Christian women to dress in "modest apparel, with propriety and moderation discretion , margin " I Timothy —that is, in clothes that are not flamboyant and garish. A Christian woman should not be an "exhibitionist" in attracting undue attention to herself by wearing clothing that is provocative, suggestive, or outrageous. We should apply the same rules to men, because the underlying principle is applicable everywhere and to everyone.

We should all dress modestly and appropriately, not sticking out in one extreme or the other. In 1 Timothy , Paul talks about what we should wear. And this brings to mind the popular saying that you are never fully dressed without a smile. I suppose that would be true for us if we were secular people, because we live in a shallow society that shuns people who are sad.

In fact, Jesus sent us to seek them out and lift them up. Is the wife still supposed to dress to please her husband? Absolutely a woman is to dress to please her husband.

It is irrelevant if the wife sees no sin in them if her husband does not want her to wear them and she defies his wishes then they become sin for her.

I was reading through the comments and I noticed your replies were very well constructed and biblical which I appreciate in conversation.

I also really liked your answers and opinions very much. With this, there is a question I was interested to ask, and I would really like to hear your view on it. This is where my question branches off of, I guess. An example situation could be a couple that are both modest, well dressed people. In the summer, the husband likes to wear his button ups in the style that the top part of the shirt is very open, so you can see his bare chest as a lot of usually younger adult men like to wear this way in the summer.

I would really like to know! And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! So here we see a husband dancing in the street with only his underwear on praising God. His wife did not approve of his lack of clothing and scolded him for it. He rebuked her. He made her barren.

You have your answer. But ultimately it is his decision what he wears, not his wife. She is not his equal, she is not his partner, she is not his authority. Thank you so much for making me understand about modesty……….. I really had a problem and confused how I dressed up for my husband……… I will try my best to look good and presentable both to God and my husband……… Thanks to your article.

Very good piece of advice. I have been a model in the past and was always taught to look my best when going to a place of worship.

Have given some talks on beauty and personal appearance. However I do think women need to be careful of dressing in a way that might seem to be sexually arousing.

Some slinky dress that would be perfectly acceptable for you to wear for a night on the town with your hubby might not be appropriate for a morning worship service. This sounded beautiful, God bless you. I believe it will be helpful to me and my wife has well. We all shall improve. God bless you. Interesting article, but i do think there are certainly limitations on the way a woman dresses, in that her intentions must be pure. Now, the Bible also speaks in revelation of the attire of an harlot….

I take it that would be one and the same thing. It is dressing in a manner, no matter who you think you might be pleasing, you can go too far in your efforts to please your husband. This is obviously relating to a public situation, as in the home there is no thought of such a thing, it is the response of a man to what he believes a woman is trying to say by her clothing.

So care must be taken not to convey that message to men. This is achieved not only by dress style but behavior as well. I was recently trying to advise a beautiful young sister, a good friend of mine on these things, but her mother wants to promote her daughters sexy beauty, which she never had as a young person, tending to be overweight, so she is living life sadly thru her daughter and feeding on the attention that comes her way because of this.

At our first morning service i had pointed out to the 14yr old that her dress, which was very nice, but it was quite short, and being buttoned down the front then tended to open wider when she sat down, which made the dress pull significantly shorter as well, so i was concerned if she failed to keep her legs crossed her underwear would be seen. She wore this with a pair of high heeled knee high boots. In the evening at our gospel meeting we gather up a group of kids that are often pretty rough street kids.

This was heartbreaking to me, as this was the very thing i did not want to happen, as she will be devastated to think people thought that, but her mother is largely to blame. So, i do suggest that the attire of an harlot designed to draw the attention and lust of the opposite sex is wrong, there is plenty of beautiful clothing to wear without conveying that message. I agree with you that are limitations on what a woman can where in certain places.

We read the following about how women are to dress for attendance and worship in the assembly. To put the statement in its full context I have I will both the verses before and some verses after it:. Now as we know the chapters and verses were added many centuries after Paul wrote his letter to Timothy so we need realize chapters 2 and 3 are one discussion.

Paul begins a discussion about how men and women are to conduct themselves in the assembly in I Timothy and ends his discussion of conduct in the assembly after giving the qualifications for Bishops and Deacons in I Timothy chapter 3.

Now that we know the context is conduct within the assembled church for worship and instruction let us zoom in on this verse:. A stola in New Testament times was a one piece robe with holes for the head and arms. Often times a strap would be worn around the middle below the breasts to give the stola some form around the body. Sometimes a stola had sleeves, other times it was sleeveless. It was only during formal occasions that they would wear a complete stola fully covering themselves.

The mother would have been wrong if she dress that way to a worship service. God is clear in I Timothy 2 that the women are to be appropriately fully clothed for worship and it is not to be a fashion show nor should they be trying to draw attention their beauty for worship.

Do I think it is ever right for a woman to wear the attire of a harlot in some other public venue other than the church? Again the answer is no. Now what is the attire of harlot?

That changes with each culture. But in each culture it is clothing that indicates that a woman is willing to give her body for money or something else in trade. Today the clothing of a harlot would be a combination of these things — a woman wearing a super tight shirt with revealing most of her cleavage with her breasts almost popping out. It would also include a very short skirt one that goes up to her rear end so that her butt cheeks almost fall out the back. Usually the clothing of a harlot includes wearing fishnet stockings and some type of boots or heels.

Now does this mean I think any kind of tight shirt on a woman is wrong to wear in public? Do I think it is wrong for a woman to wear a shirt in public that shows any kind of cleavage?