³ It is not [^Lexternal things like] ·fancy [braided; elaborate] hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should ·make you beautiful [^Lbe your adornment]. ⁴ No, your beauty should come from ·within you [your inner self; ^Lthe hidden/secret person of the heart]—the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never ·be destroyed [fade; perish] and is ·very precious [very valuable; of great worth] to God [Prov. 31:30]. ⁵ In this same way the holy women who lived long ago and ·followed [^Lput their hope in] God ·made themselves beautiful [^Ladorned themselves], ·yielding [submitting; subjecting themselves] to their own husbands.