modeling
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3For you, there should be no unnecessary adornment of the hair, or surrounding with gold, or the wearing of ornate clothing. 4Instead, you should be a hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptibility of a quiet and meek spirit, rich in the sight of God.
28But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
9Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire, 10but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.
30Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.
16For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.
25Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks. 26For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man. 27Would a man be able to conceal fire in his bosom, so that his garments would not burn? 28Or could he walk over burning coals, so that his feet would not be burned? 29So also, he who enters to the wife of his neighbor shall not be clean when he touches her. 30Not so great is the fault when someone has stolen. For he steals so as to satisfy a hungry soul.
24Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”
5even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them.
2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
5Thus says the Lord: “What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they would draw far away from me, and would walk after emptiness, and would become empty?
7In all things, present yourself as an example of good works: in doctrine, with integrity, with seriousness, 8with sound words, irreproachably, so that he who is an opponent may dread that he has nothing evil to say about us.