⁹ I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,^(A)

³ Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes.^{(A) 4} Rather, it should be that of your inner self,^(B) the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.^{(C) 5} For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God^(D) used to adorn themselves.^(E) They submitted themselves to their own husbands,

³ Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers^(A) or addicted to much wine,^(B) but to teach what is good. ⁴ Then they can urge the younger women^(C) to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be self-controlled^(D) and pure, to be busy at home,^(E) to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands,^(F) so that no one will malign the word of God.^(G)