Question - Dress

Question...

Is any kind of dressing of men can attracts women? because if a women dressed bikini that cause a man to look at her(she is the reason for sinning of that man) viceversa is there any kind of dressing of men that can cause women to lust at him.If so I am ready to leave that kind of dressing.

Answer...

The Bible does not specifically set any dress standards except that men and women are not to deliberately dress like each other in a perverted way.

The instruction that the NT gives for christian women could equally be applied to men as to women.

1 Tim 2v8: I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. 9: In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10: But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

Both women and men are to dress in a manner that is modest. In other words it is not to be sexually provocative. (The women are not to arrange their hair like the prostitutes do.) The clothing of men or women should not be brazen but should be serious and modest. Not with excessive gold or pearls or very expensive cloth. But the christian should be clothed with good deeds.

Peter has something to say too…

1 Peter 3v3: Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4: But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

He says you women (but it applies to men as well) Let not your adorning be an outward show of fancy hair cut or of gold jewellery or the putting on of expensive clothes but let your adorning be an inner thing of the heart, which is beautiful to God. A meek and quite spirit, which is in Gods sight greatly respected.

Steve