What does dressing modestly mean?
Modesty. Fewer words in Biblical theology have greater potential of moving large groups of professing Christian women to hate you. Fewer words in Biblical theology have more diverse associations. Fewer words in Biblical theology have more associated confusion. Fewer words get serious exploration, since everyone already knows that it means, right? Not so fast. So what does the word “ modesty ” actually mean, like in the Bible ? If you look up “modesty”in your ESV , you’ll strangely come across only two occurrences: 1 Cor. 12:23 and 1 Tim. 2:9 (there’s zero occurrences of “modest”). Now that doesn’t mean that the concept doesn’t occur more frequently, but rather that the English Bible translates a Greek term as “modesty” only twice. In case you’re wondering if I’ve stacked the deck because of my chosen Bible version , that’s hardly the case. The NIV only has those two occurrences of “modesty” as well. The New Living Translation has 1 Tim. 2:9 and