1 Timothy 2:9 meaning and explanation

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,

1 Timothy 2:9, Berean Standard Bible

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Paul is writing to Timothy, who is leading the church in Ephesus, and here he turns from instructions about prayer to how women in that congregation should dress. The word kosmios, meaning orderly or respectable, frames the whole instruction.

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