The holy restraint that clothes the body to honor God and neighbor. 1 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. Paul lists modesty first, before any specific instruction on hair or ornament. The Greek kosmios (orderly, well-arranged) and aidos (reverence, shame in the good sense) together name the disposition: dress that honors the body as God's creation without inviting either lust (from outside) or pride (from within). 1 Peter 3:3-4 sets the comparative standard: the outward adorning is secondary to the unfading inward ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. Modesty applies to both sexes (1 Tim 2:8 addresses men first); cultural specifics vary, but the principle (clothe the body to neither display nor provoke) is invariant. The modern Christian recovery of modesty is part of the broader recovery of Christian aesthetics over against the sexualization of nearly every public space.