<TITLE>26. Par -</TITLE>L-958-169 Now, look, sister dear, I highly respect that. I have a honor for a woman that'll do that. For some woman just to come up and do her hair any way, or spit on your feet and walk around arrogant and no respects at all, remember, Jesus said, "What you do to these, you've done it to Me." See? And I respect that in you, and God will bless you for that.
But, sister, about the hair color or something like that, I--I don't know. I--I can't back that up with the Scripture, so I--that's just up to you. You see? You, if you want to do it, that's perfectly all right with me. As far as I know, the church has no such customs. If you want... Anything that's not in this Bible, well, you just... That's up to you. You see? But I'll just give you my advice, you see, and as far as I would know... You know, it's just the nature of a woman to want to look pretty; she's supposed to be that way.

L-958-171 You know, in every life there is, the male is the prettiest, but the human race. Take any bird, cow. Take a bunch of cattle. Which is the prettiest, the old crumpled-horn cow or the big bull? Take a deer; which is, the little doe or the buck? Take a bunch of elk; which is the prettiest, the male or female? Moose, whatever you want to do. Take it--take it in the bird; take it in the chicken, the rooster or the hen? Take it in the bird, the little--big pretty cardinal or the little speckled hen, set on her nest and raise her eggs? See? Everything in the whole race, always the--the male is the prettiest, but the female to the human. Why? She caused the fall. Satan chose her right there, and beauty is of the devil. See?

L-958-172 Satan was the most beautiful angel. He was a cherubim that overshadowed. Look how difference women is getting now to what they used to be. How many remembers Pearl--reading of Pearl O'Brien? Let's see your hands, some of you older people. Sure. See? Supposed to be the most beautiful woman in America. Any little teenage snicklefritz on the street would be twice as pretty as she now. Why? That's just exactly what the Bible said: "When the sons of God saw the daughters of men were fair..." That was a bunch of renegades that sent the flood upon the earth, that God destroyed the whole human race. See? It's exactly. And today everything's based upon Hollywood and--and beauty and things like that, when beauty is the secret thing of the heart (See?) and not the outward appearance. Let them adorn themselves, not with outward appearance, but inward, of meek, gentle spirit. That's--that's a Christian.
So now, on your question, sister, I don't know just what to tell you.
Now, I can stop right now or take another thirty minutes then, and then... Would thirty minutes... How many will just stay another thirty minutes, and then that'll give us a little more time tonight. But I'll hurry right quick then.

L-959-Q-251 251 Brother Branham, does this I Timothy 2:9 mean a woman cannot braid her hair? Does "broid" hair mean "braided" hair?
Now look, sister, now this... I'm--I'm glad that followed this. I never fixed it there, but it just--it followed that good.
Notice, a braided hair in that day was the sign of a street woman; that's what she done, braided her hair. And Paul said to the Christians, "Now, that adorning, not let it be of a braided..." (or 'broided' and 'braid' is the same thing)--to braid their hair, because it looked like the rest of the world.
Now, you're supposed not to look like the world or act like the world. See? The women are supposed to be different there. See? No, now, braiding hair... Now, today braided hair is pretty, and it's a long ways from the fashion of the world. Now, you see the women, the way they do their hair today... Just keep your hair in any way; just don't look like the world. See? Don't look or dress like it. If they wear shorts, you wear a dress. If they--if they do their hair all--cut it all off and bob it, and do them ever... You--you--you just let yours alone. See?


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