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In like manner, ye wives, [be] in subjection to your won husbands that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives

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beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.

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Whose [adorning] let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel

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but [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [apparel] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

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

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as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.