Wives and Husbands

3 In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives, ² when they^[a] see your respectful, pure conduct. ³ Let your^[b] adornment not be the external kind, braiding hair and putting on gold jewelry or putting on fine clothing, ⁴ but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God. ⁵ For in the same way formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves by^[c] being subject to their own husbands, ⁶ like Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you have become when you^[d] do good and are not frightened with respect to any terror.