Various Instructions Regarding Dress

• Deuteronomy 22:5. Women shall not wear men’s clothing; neither men put on women’s garments.BHB 170.8

• Proverbs 31:21, margin. Extra clothing should be worn in winter. The Ministry of Healing, 293.BHB 170.9

• Acts 12:8. Dress properly in night air.BHB 170.10

• 1 Timothy 2:9. Christians should wear modest apparel, instead of the immodest dress of the world, exposing the limbs and breast.BHB 170.11

• 1 Timothy 2:9. Costly ornaments should be eliminated. The Ministry of Healing, 207, 287.BHB 170.12

• Revelation 17:4, 5. Such ornaments become the harlot, but not the professed Christian.BHB 170.13

• Revelation 19:8. True Christians, knowing that God has taken garments as a type of righteousness, can not be sloven and untidy in their dress. The Ministry of Healing, 290; Testimonies for the Church 6:96.BHB 170.14

• 3 John 1:2. God wishes us to be in health; a true Christian can not dress in a manner to injure the health. Testimonies for the Church 2:531; The Ministry of Healing, 288.BHB 171.1

• Revelation 1:13; Daniel 10:5. The heavenly fashion is to gird the body about the bony structure of the chest and hips; but worldly fashion compresses the soft, yielding portion. The weight of all clothing should be suspended from the shoulders and not from the soft, yielding waist. The Ministry of Healing, 292.BHB 171.2

All Christians should dress modestly, healthfully, tastefully, and neatly, thus representing the principles of the heavenly kingdom. Testimonies for the Church 2:66, 610-614; Education, 248.BHB 171.3