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CLOTHING  -  An Outward Indicator of An Inward Spiritual State


1.   Clothing For Modesty’s Sake Was Instituted By God

Genesis 3:21   Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed          them.

2.   Nakedness is a Mark of Shame

Ezekiel 16:39   And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent          place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and       shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

Luke 8:27   And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had          devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in [any] house, but in the tombs.

3.   Jesus Was Concerned About the External as Well as the Internal

Mark 5:15   And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the          legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

4.   Clothing Used to Indicate a Negative Spiritual State

II Samuel 14:2   And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray          thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not          thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:

Psalms 35:13   But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul          with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Psalms 109:18   As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his          bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Psalms 109:29   Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their          own confusion, as with a mantle.

Ezekiel 7:27   The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands of          the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do unto them after their way, and          according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I [am] the LORD.

5.   The Wearing of Proper Clothing is Commanded by God

I Timothy 2:9   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;

I Peter 3:3   Whose adorning let it not be that outward [adorning] of plaiting the hair, and of wearing       of gold, or of putting on of apparel;




6.   Improper Clothing Displeases the Lord Greatly

Zephaniah 1:8   And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the          princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.

Deut. 22:5   The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on       a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

7.   Those Improperly Dressed Were Prohibited From the King’s Presence

Esther 4:2   And came even before the king's gate: for none [might] enter into the king's gate clothed       with sackcloth.

8.   Change of Clothing Required to be in Royal Presence or in God’s Presence

Esther 5:1   Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on [her] royal [apparel], and stood          in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat          upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

II Samuel 12:20   Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed [himself], and changed his          apparel, and came into the house of the LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his          own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.

9.   Clothing Used to Indicate the Blessing of a King

Esther 6:9   And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble          princes, that they may array the man [withal] whom the king delighteth to honour, and          bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus          shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

Esther 8:15   And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white,       and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city       of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

10.   A King’s Glory Evidenced by the Clothing of His Servants

II Chronicles 9:4   And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his          ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by          which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.

11.   Clothing Indicative of Personal Purity

II Samuel 13:18   And [she had] a garment of divers colours upon her: for with such robes were the king's          daughters [that were] virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and bolted          the door after her.

12.   Clothing Indicative of a Repentant Attitude

Joshua 7:6   And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the          LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

II Chron. 34:19   And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his          clothes.

II Chron. 34:27   Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou          heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst       thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard          [thee] also, saith the LORD.

13.   Clothing Used as a Type of Spirituality

Psalms 132:16   I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.

Psalms 132:18   His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

Zechariah 3:4   And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the          filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to       pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

Proverbs 31:25   Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

Isaiah 59:17   For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head;          and he put on the garments of vengeance [for] clothing, and was clad with zeal as a          cloak.

Job 29:14   I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment [was] as a robe and a diadem.

Psalms 132:9   Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness; and let thy saints shout for joy.

Isaiah 61:10   I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath          clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of             righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride          adorneth [herself] with her jewels.

I Peter 5:5   Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one          to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to       the humble.

14.   Clothing Is The Identifiable Mark of the Redeemed in Eternity

Revelation 4:4   And round about the throne [were] four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four          and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns          of gold.

Revelation 7:9   After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all          nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the          Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

Revelation 19:14   And the armies [which were] in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine          linen, white and clean.

Revelation 19:8   And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the       fine linen is the righteousness of saints.