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Wives

In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over by observing your pure and reverent lives.

Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They put their trust in God and accepted the authority of their husbands. For instance, Sarah obeyed her husband, Abraham, and called him her master. You are her daughters when you do what is right without fear of what your husbands might do.

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In the same way homoiōs, · ho wives gynē should be subject hypotassō to ho their own idios husbands anēr, so that hina even kai if ei some tis of them refuse to believe apeitheō the ho word logos, they may be won kerdainō without aneu a word logos by dia the ho conduct anastrophē of their ho wives gynē when they observe epopteuō with en respect phobos the ho purity hagnos of your hymeis life anastrophē. Do not ou let your hos beauty kosmos be eimi · ho external exōthen—such as braiding emplokē the hair thrix, · kai wearing perithesis gold chrysion jewelry , or ē dressing endysis up in fine clothes himation but alla let it be the ho inner kryptos person anthrōpos of the ho heart kardia, the ho unfading aphthartos beauty of ho a gentle praus and kai tranquil hēsychios spirit pneuma, which hos in the sight enōpion of ho God theos is eimi precious polytelēs. For gar in the same way houtōs, at an earlier time pote, · kai the ho devout hagios women gynē those ho who put their hope elpizō in eis God theos used to adorn kosmeō themselves heautou by being subject hypotassō to ho their own idios husbands anēr, just as hōs Sarah Sarra obeyed hypakouō · ho Abraham Abraam, calling kaleō him autos “my lord kyrios.” You are ginomai her hos daughters teknon if you do what is right agathopoieō and kai do not fear phobeomai any mēdeis intimidation ptoēsis.

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