Search results
May 8, 2024 · God created you and believes you are beautiful on the outside. Yet, I love the word “merely.” It literally means: “Don’t just be beautiful on the outside; be beautiful on the inside.” God commands you here to have a beautiful heart. In other words, be the full package. Be beautiful inside and out.
- 1 Equality
- 2 Fidelity
- 3 Respect
- 4 Submission
- 5 Humility
1Corinthians 11:1-16This passage links the relationship of man and wife with two other relationships that are similar in some ways. This shows a structure that's timeless and unchangeable... We cannot deny the equality of Christ and God (as to divinity), nor the equality of man and Christ (as to manhood), otherwise we deny the very divine nature an...
1Peter 3:1-2 Peter speaks of chastity. Our Creator told the first woman, "Your desire shall be to your husband" (Genesis 3:16). The gospel binds the same on Christians saying, "Let marriage be honourable among all and let the marriage bed be undefiled" and that's not talking about getting toast crumbs in your bed (Hebrews 13:4). A man may think his...
1Peter 3:1-2 (again) Peter links chastity with respect. He actually uses the word "fear" — in the Greek φοβος (phobos) — but what he means is that the woman would not dare to do the wrong thing by her husband, not because she is scared of him, but because she values her relationship both with him and with God. Therefore she treats her husband with ...
1Peter 3:4-7 Next Peter speaks of a "gentle and quiet spirit" as an adornment worth far more than jewells. 1. Peter goes on to speak of women being, in that spirit, "submissive to their own husbands" 2. He cites the example of Sarah who "obeyed Abraham, calling him lord" —a fact which sometimes evokes laughter in twenty-first century women. 3. Afte...
1Peter 3:8 Finally, Peter mentions humility. "Let all be harmonius, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit" He is summing up a lot of things that he has said, but a woman's desirable attributes are included. So she too should be sympathetic, sisterly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit. The lack of the last of those qualities, hum...
People also ask
What makes a woman a beautiful woman?
What does the Bible say about being a godly woman?
What are the characteristics of a godly woman?
What responsibilities has God given to women?
- A Godly Woman Fears the Lord. Proverbs 31:30 says… “Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” Rather than focusing on outward beauty or appealing to other people, a godly woman focuses on God first.
- She Speaks and Behaves Wisely. Proverbs 31:26-27 says… “She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.”
- She Helps to Guide Younger Women into Godliness Themselves. Titus 2:3-5 says… “Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.
- She Submits to Her Husband in Christian Marriage. Colossians 3:18 says… “Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.” Rather than sinfully seeking dominance over her spouse, a godly woman should submit to her husband as he follows the Lord in their marriage.
Jan 24, 2024 · To help speed the process, the book of Proverbs comes alongside young men and makes a daring move. Consider, it says, “a beautiful woman without discretion” (Proverbs 11:22). Fair outwardly, foolish inwardly, she has caught many a man’s eyes — and kept most eyes on the surface. She shines like silver, glitters like gold.
- To Love, Believe, and Respect the Lord. Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands,
- To Support the Gospel Work of the Church. I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.
- To Be Diligent in Her Vocations. And every skillful woman spun with her hands, and they all brought what they had spun in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen.
- To Be a Wife. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones.
May 29, 2015 · Quiet, Serene, and Tranquil in Spirit. “Let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable.”. Same thing with regard to our inheritance. “Imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet.”. And if this right here has a negative connotation for you, try the word “serene” or “tranquil.”.
Biblical Bible Beauty Lesson #2 – God Made You. “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”. – Psalm 139:13-14. God created you. You are wonderfully made. You are fearfully made.
