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How wives ought to order themselves toward their husbands and in their apparel. The duty of men toward their wives. He exhorts them all to unite and to love, and patiently to suffer trouble. Of baptism.

Likewise, let the wives be subject to their husbands, so that even those who do not believe in the word may without the word be won by the conduct of the wives, when they see your pure living coupled with fear.

Your adornment should not be outward, with broided hair and hanging on of gold, or in putting on gorgeous apparel, but let the hid man of the heart be incorrupt, with a meek and quiet spirit – which spirit is before God a thing much set by. For after this manner in the old time did the holy women who trusted in God attire themselves, and were obedient to their husbands, even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, and called him Lord – whose daughters you are as long as you do well, not being afraid of every shadow.

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