A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

Make linen undergarments to cover their bare flesh, extending from waist to thigh.

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,

when they see your pure and reverent demeanor. Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved. . . .

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension. Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Doesn’t nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.

And the priest shall put on his linen robe and linen undergarments, and he shall remove from the altar the ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed and place them beside it.

Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,

For one person has faith to eat all things, while another, who is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not belittle the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted him.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.

but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight.

For this reason a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother. If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him. And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it. If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up. A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God. . . .

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.

He is to wear the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments. He must tie a linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are holy garments, and he must bathe himself with water before he wears them.

Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Make tunics, sashes, and headbands for Aaron’s sons, to give them glory and splendor.

“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

Strength and honor are her clothing, and she can laugh at the days to come.

And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.

She girds herself with strength and shows that her arms are strong.

And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is just as if her head were shaved.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.

Yes, and I ask you, my true yokefellow, to help these women who have labored with me for the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God.

Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.

You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination.

But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

as I also try to please everyone in all I do. For I am not seeking my own good, but the good of many, that they may be saved.

When the people heard these bad tidings, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry. For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’” So the Israelites stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

“For our God is a consuming fire.”

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed the hem of his robe, and it tore.

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants what must soon come to pass. He made it known by sending His angel to His servant John,

Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

Women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says.

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

For none of us lives to himself alone, and none of us dies to himself alone. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,

Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

They are to wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists. They must not wear anything that makes them perspire.

Now brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall inform Me.

“Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, for you are a kinsman-redeemer.”

Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

I have not written to you because you lack knowledge of the truth, but because you have it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. . . .

slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God. Therefore let us stop judging one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way.

It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything to cause your brother to stumble.

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ. Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and these three are in agreement.

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes, but from the inner disposition of your heart, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God’s sight. For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

If anyone teaches another doctrine and disagrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and with godly teaching, he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,

For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen.

that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,