The women likewise had problems during prayer: Likewise (I want the) women (to pray) in well behaved deportment with respect for others and wisely to adorn themselves, not in gold-braided hair or pearls or expensive apparel, but (to adorn themselves) with what is proper for women professing religion, through good actions (2:9–10). Since the false teaching at Ephesus emphasized the external literal keeping of laws61 as opposed to fulfilling genuine virtues in action, this difficulty manifested itself