Living Modest Lives

What is modesty?

Websters definition of modesty 1: the quality of not being too proud or confident about yourself or your abilities. 2: propriety in dress, speech, or conduct

1 Timothy 2:9–10 (ESV)

9 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV

2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

κόσμιος (kosmios) - with the root word cosmos and connotes orderliness and propriety

αἰδώς (aidōs) denotes the quality of modesty and it implies that because of that modesty the person is respected

σωφροσύνη -ης, ἡ; (sōphrosynē) — wisdom working itself out in self-control over one’s passions and desires.

Order and controlled lives.

Biblical modesty is ordering our lives to represent Christ.

What is the motivation for modesty?

1 Corinthians 6:19–20 ESV

19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

The motivation is to reflect and glorify God.

How do we apply modesty?

Do my motives to reflect and glorify God?

Ask, does this action reflect my identity in Christ? Do they glorify God?