A Mulher Virtuosa
9 and I would have the women dress becomingly, with modesty and self-control, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes,
10 but –as befits women making a claim to godliness– with the ornament of good works.
3 In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.
4 They should school the young women to be affectionate to their husbands and to their children, to be sober-minded, pure in their lives,
5 industrious in their homes, kind, submissive to their husbands, so that the Christian teaching may not be exposed to reproach.