What Does the Bible Say About Wife Modesty And Purity?

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels. The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain. She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. ...

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

10 Bible Verses about Wife Modesty And Purity

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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Titus 2:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes