“dress,” as it were, ought to be good works. “Dress … in modest clothing” translates the more literal “adorn themselves with modest deportment” (καταστολή; only here in the NT; cf. Isa 61:3 LXX; Josephus, J. W. 2.126), which, while primarily referring to dress, also includes modest attitude (cf. Epictetus, Diatr. 2.10.15). “Modest” (κόσμιος) occurs with reference to male overseers in 3:2 (“respectable”; κοσμέω occurs in 1 Pet 3:5; used figuratively in Titus 2:10). The term “decency” (αἰδοῦς) is unique