In like manner also, let wives be subject to their husbands: that, if any believe not the word, they may be won without the word, by the conversation of the wives,

²Considering your chaste conversation with fear.

³Whose adorning, let it not be the outward plaiting of the hair, or the wearing of gold, or the putting on of apparel:

⁴But the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit which is rich in the sight of God.

⁵For after this manner heretofore, the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

⁶As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance.

⁷Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

⁸And in fine, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, being lovers of the brotherhood, merciful, modest, humble:

⁹Not rendering evil for evil, nor railing for railing, but contrariwise, blessing: for unto this are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

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