Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;
We cannot suppose that the apostle forbids Christian women to adorn themselves with apparel suitable to their station, any more than our Lord forbade his disciples to labor for the meat that perisheth, John 6:27. His meaning in that precept certainly was, that the disciples were not to labor for the meat which perisheth only, but also for the meat enduring to everlasting life.