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    Calista

    kah-LIS-tah

    Meaning

    Most beautiful; Fairest

    Greek origin · Girl

    What it points to

    Calista's beauty is incorruptible — meek spirit of great price, favour beyond vanity, the fairest who is praised because she fears the LORD.

    Verses · King James Version

    “But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.”

    1 Peter 3:4

    “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”

    Proverbs 31:30

    Most used in the 2000s (US records)

    biblesundays.com · King James Version

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