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)

²⁷ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs,^(A) which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.