Jewelry is NOT a Sin.

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

A word about jewlelry: Paul is not forbidding the wearing of jewelry here, at all. There is nothing wrong with jewelry. Solomon’s bride in Song of Solomon wore gold and silver jewelry (Song 1:10-11; 4:9), as did Rebekah (Gen. 24:53). There is an appropriate time and place for that as affirmed by the words of Isaiah 61:10:

I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
my soul shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

In Paul’s day, much like today, jewelry was, and is, used by people to flaunt their wealth to others or scream out “look at me!” Wealthy women in the church at Ephesus were doing just that and this is what Paul is forbidding in this verse. He is confronting anything that would cause people to desire the attention to be on themselves instead of Jesus. He is not forbidding the wearing of jewelry, period.

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