God Commands Us to Be Shamefaced
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety. (1 Timothy 2:9) What does “shamefacedness” mean? Let’s look at the commentaries of old, since they went by the KJV, not the modern versions, which don’t have that word. (I love the KJV!) “With shamefacedness and sobriety.—These expressions denote the inward feelings with which the Apostle desires the devout Christian women to come to divine service; the first signifies ‘the innate shrinking from anything unbecoming.’…