This one verse specifically is interpreted as women having to cover their hair in order as not to distract as well as wearing jewelry, make up and the sorts.
1Pe 3:3 Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewelry of gold, or of putting on apparel;
How do you relate braiding to keeping their hair covered, that isn't even close to being the same thing? Wearing a golden chain with a cross on it shouldn't be used as a way for people to recognize them as being a Christian. The recognition is through acts of kindness, that applies to men as well, wear a cross it is nothing more than an icon.
The point I am making is that certain things are taken to be as a requirement for some religious beliefs, when in all, the main point of it all is the beauty of the heart that is sought.
Men are just as vain, look in any large store and you will find a huge selection of product aimed at enhancing a man's outer beauty. Television ads are no different, you don't see commercials that promote inner beauty, they are geared towards outer beauty.
For there in (Heart) is where the beauty is, where the adorning is, where the richness is.
Did Jesus gather believers by inner or outer beauty?
Isa:53:2: For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Isa:53:3:
He is despised and rejected of men;
a man of sorrows,
and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him;
he was despised,
and we esteemed him not.
Isa:53:4:
Surely he hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem him stricken,
smitten of God,
and afflicted.
Isa:53:5:
But he was wounded for our transgressions,
he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him;
and with his stripes we are healed.
Contrast that with what the temple leaders were led by.
M't:6:5:
And when thou prayest,
thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are:
for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets,
that they may be seen of men.
Verily I say unto you,
They have their reward.
Lu:18:9:
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous,
and despised others:
Lu:18:10:
Two men went up into the temple to pray;
the one a Pharisee,
and the other a publican.
Lu:18:11:
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself,
God,
I thank thee,
that I am not as other men are,
extortioners,
unjust,
adulterers,
or even as this publican.
Lu:18:12:
I fast twice in the week,
I give tithes of all that I possess.
Lu:18:13:
And the publican,
standing afar off,
would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven,
but smote upon his breast,
saying,
God be merciful to me a sinner.
Lu:18:14:
I tell you,
this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased;
and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Joh:12:42:
Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him,
lest they should be put out of the synagogue:
Joh:12:43:
For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
As for the women wearing pants, I don't recall the verse specific to that conclusion, but it is required by some beliefs
Let me know when you find it.
I consider all that workable solutions because the different denominations take what they want to observe re as their own beliefs.
Therefore, the new testament becomes a workable guide to working out our own salvation.
Like this verse?
1Pe:4:15:
But let none of you suffer as a murderer,
or as a thief,
or as an evildoer,
or as a busybody in other men's matters.
