Becoming
One translation has rendered Phil. 1:27 in these beautiful words: “Let your manner of life be becoming the gospel of Christ.” We speak of anything being becoming when it gives a good appearance. An article of clothing becomes you when it gives you a better or less awkward appearance. So your life is to be becoming to the gospel of Christ. You are to live so that your life will make the gospel of Christ more beautiful to the hearts of men. You can do this only by living just as the Bible reads. All the precious truths of the Bible are to read in your life just as they do in the Bible, and thus your life will give a better appearance to God’s Word and make it more real and interesting to the unsaved.