and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.” For beauty to be vain means it can be superficial—preoccupied solely with the external. For beauty to be deceitful means it can trick us into missing a deeper, darker reality. We can be mistaken by the lure of beauty into being captured—namely, by sin. In the Bible we see a reflection of a pervasive cultural recognition: it is very often the more physically attractive who prove to be more spiritually deceptive. We can be easily baited