1 In like manner, ye wives, 'be' in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;
2 beholding your chaste behavior 'coupled' with fear.
3 Whose 'adorning' let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
4 but 'let it be' the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible 'apparel' of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
5 For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:
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