“modesty” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word modesty appears 9 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 9 matching verses are shown below.
- Ecclesiasticus 7:21 Depart not from a wise and good wife, whom thou hast gotten in the fear of the Lord: for the grace of her modesty is above gold.
- 2 Machabees 4:37 Antiochus, therefore, was grieved in his mind for Onias, and being moved to pity, shed tears, remembering the sobriety and modesty of the deceased.
- 2 Corinthians 10:1 Now I Paul, myself beseech you, by the mildness and modesty of Christ: who in presence indeed am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
- Galatians 5:23 Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law.
- Philippians 4:5 Let your modesty be known to all men. The Lord is nigh.
- Colossians 3:12 Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, the bowels of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:
- 1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:
- 2 Timothy 2:25 With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth: if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth;
- 1 Peter 3:16 But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.