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of this information in my articles for the last 22

years. Let me just walk through some of these

words. The word adorn in verse 9 means “to put

in order or to arrange as the order of the

universe is Divinely arranged.” It means to

beautify or to decorate. Titus 2:10 says to adorn

the doctrine of God. How do we adorn the

doctrine of God? By obeying it. In Revelation

21 and verse 2, the bride is adorned for her

husband; Luke 21:5, the Temple was adorned

with goodly stones. The Greek word for adorn

is kosmos, and, again, it has the idea of putting

in order and arranging.

The Greek word for the word modest in

verse 9 is kosmios, and it's akin to the Greek

word for adorn. The word modest here is the

only time that this word appears in the King

James Bible, and basically the word modest

means “free from vanity” and “not calling

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