7 In a similar way, you husbands must live with your wives in an understanding manner, as with a most delicate vessel. Honor them as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing may interfere with your prayers.
1 In a similar way, you wives must submit yourselves to your husbands so that, even if some of them refuse to obey the word, they may be won over without a word through your conduct as wives
2 when they see your pure and reverent lives.
3 Your beauty should not be an external one, consisting of braided hair or the wearing of gold ornaments and dresses.
4 Instead, it should be the inner disposition of the heart, consisting in the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great value in the sight of God.
5 After all, this is how holy women who set their hope on God used to make themselves beautiful in the past. They submitted themselves to their husbands,
6 just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You have become her daughters by doing good and by not letting anything terrify you.
11 Their wives must also be serious. They must not be gossips, but instead be stable and trustworthy in everything.
9 Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not by braiding their hair or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes,
22 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. It is he who is the Savior of the body.
24 Indeed, just as the church is submissive to Christ, so wives must be submissive to their husbands in everything.
3 Likewise, older women are to show their reverence for God by their behavior. They are not to be gossips or addicted to alcohol, but to be examples of goodness.
4 They should encourage the younger women to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children,
5 sensible, pure, managers of their households, and kind, and to submit themselves to their husbands, lest the word of God be discredited.
11 In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man of woman.
12 For as woman came from man, so man comes through woman. But everything comes from God.