Isaiah 3 and jewelry...

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Thanks, Jeffrey. The reasonable conclusion is that jewelry is not meant to be focused upon as what makes anyone attractive, but rather the heart. Not to say jewelry ought never be worn, or else the passage sin Peter makes us believe we should never wear clothing. And God was against focus upon it, and association with harlotry and idolatry. But because godly women wore it and nothing was said negatively about that fact, and especially since God Himself used it as figurative of pure and holy love for his lady, other instances of it are fine and good.