As with the previous two examples of externalities, the woman concerned could use clothing to draw attention to herself and so exhibit self-absorption and self-consciousness. Such focus does not befit a person who has been born again and so freed from the restrictions of a this-worldly perspective on reality and freed for “a living hope” that includes a glorious “inheritance” (1 Peter 1:3–4).
3 Do not let your adorning be external the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear