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11 “If two Israelite men get into a fight and the wife of one tries to rescue her husband by grabbing the testicles of the other man,

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11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,

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And I want women to be modest in their appearance.[a] They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes.

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  1. 2:9 Or to pray in modest apparel.

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)

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And some people even slander us by claiming that we say, “The more we sin, the better it is!” Those who say such things deserve to be condemned.

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Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”?(A) Their condemnation is just!

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