Sunday, December 5, 2010

CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN MODESTY AS THE BIBLE SAYS

Relevant words from the Bible Regarding Modesty

Gal.5:22-23 "But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity."

Romans 12;1,2 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God."

1 Corinthians 3:16,17 "Know you not, that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? But if any man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy. For the temple of God is holy, which you are."

1 Corinthians 11:10 Therefore ought the woman to have a power (covering) over her head, because of the angels. (who are present in the assemblies of the faithful)

1 Timothy 2, 9 "In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair or gold, or pearls or costly attire."

1 Thessalonians 5:22 From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves. And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you in all things; that your whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 22:5 "A woman shall not be clothed wih man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he that doeth these things is abominable before God."

Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction: and many there are who go in there. How narrow is the gate and straight is the way that leads to life: and few there are that find it!"

Keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary, I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:30

ON REVERENCE AND HOLY SILENCE

The Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silent before Him. Habakuk 2:20

Let all flesh be silent at the presence of the Lord; for He has risen out of His holy habitation. Zecharias 2:13