Biblical modesty for Woman & Young teens

The world's attitude toward fashion, should not be the church's. Nevertheless, immodest dress is a problem in the church.




Dress or the lack thereof on the part of Bethsheba played a major role in the temptation and fall of David (2 Sam. 11: 2, 3). Jesus taught, "But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart" (Matt. 5: 28).

Wearing Seductive and Revealing dress can certainly be conducive to such "adultery in the heart" and those so clad will also be held responsible by God.

Types of Seductive or Revealing clothing to consider:

Skin Tight skirts, pants & dresses, showing cleavage or wearing tight fitted shirts, or clothing that draws a mans eyes directly to your BREAST is wrong and has no business being worn into church.

Young woman or woman of any age may not have a worldly attitude about modesty, but
because of naivete, carelessness, busy lifestyles or cultural pressures, some women unknowingly dress immodestly. If you grew up in the church and learned God's way you have no excuse, you should be dressing for God, not the men of the church.

"We must remember what battles men face to stay pure as they are stimulated visually by women," "They should never have it flaunted in their faces, and to have it done at church is an abomination."

Mary Mohler, wife of seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr., speaks out a biblical  modesty:

She told how she once visited a church that had a dress code.

"I applaud them that they have the boldness to have a dress code," she said. "It's for members only. But if a strong conservative church like that has a dress code, what does that tell you? It tells you that there are problems even in that setting where people are coming dressed inappropriately to worship."

To make her point Mohler gave several fictitious examples of Christian women dressing immodestly. For example,
"Clueless Clarice" simply pulls something out of the closet before going out, not taking the time to examine herself in the mirror.
"Disorganized Delores" has three children and says she doesn't have the time to consider what she wears.
"Stylish Stephie" only wears what's fashionable.
"Frugal Frances" only wears what's cheap.
"Dieting Diane" has one size of everything and often wears clothes that are too small -- simply to reward herself for shedding a few pounds.

 
"I call these cases accidental immodesty," Mohler said. "It's not deliberate, but the result is the same and what it looks like to the world is, 'These Christian women dress just like we do.'"
We as "woman of God" have an obligation "to God" to dress for him with respect to the other woman in church and respect to ourselves.