Pam Padgett ... teacher
1Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves
in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with
broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10 But (which
becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Many women have great pride in the fleshly beauty they have attained
through makeup, hair fashions, jewelry, and clothes. Focusing on
the flesh and exalting the flesh, they seek to draw attention to
themselves by their outward appearance.
But we're taught another way ... modest (decent and
proper) apparel , shamefacedness (not proudly exalting the
flesh, but humbling ourselves before the Word of God),
soberness.
We deal with our outward appearance, but in decent and proper ways before God.
Rather than consuming ourselves with outward beauty, our desire is
to be continually renewed within (our inward man) by focusing on and
doing the Word of God. We want to exalt God and His Word, not the
flesh, in our lives and to bring forth that which is good in the
sight of God.
We seek praise from God, not from man.
Proverbs 31:30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a
woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.