modest apparel

⁹Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire, ¹⁰but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.

⁹Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire,

⁴Instead, you should be a hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptibility of a quiet and meek spirit, rich in the sight of God.

³For you, there should be no unnecessary adornment of the hair, or surrounding with gold, or the wearing of ornate clothing.

⁵A woman shall not be clothed with manly apparel, nor shall a man make use of feminine apparel. For whoever does these things is abominable with God.

¹Similarly also, wives should be subject to their husbands, so that, even if some do not believe the Word, they may benefit without the Word, through the behavior of these wives, ²as they consider with fear your chaste behavior. ³For you, there should be no unnecessary adornment of the hair, or surrounding with gold, or the wearing of ornate clothing. ⁴Instead, you should be a hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptibility of a quiet and meek spirit, rich in the sight of God. ⁵For in this way, in past times also, holy women adorned themselves, hoping in God, being subject to their own husbands. ⁶For so Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. You are her daughters, well-behaved and unafraid of any disturbance.

¹And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind.

²⁸You shall not cut your flesh for the dead, and you shall not make other figures or marks on yourself. I am the Lord.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

¹⁰but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.

²⁸But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁶So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

²²A beautiful and senseless woman is like a gold ring in the snout of a swine.

¹⁶And the Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion have been lifted up, and have walked with extended necks and winking eyes, because they have continued on, walking noisily and advancing with a pretentious stride, ¹⁷the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion bald, and the Lord will strip them of the locks of their hair. ¹⁸In that day, the Lord will take away their decorative shoes, ¹⁹and the little moons and chains, and the necklaces and bracelets, and the hats, ²⁰and the ornaments for their hair, and the anklets, and the touches of myrrh and little bottles of perfumes, and the earrings, ²¹and the rings, and the jewels hanging on their foreheads,

¹⁷She has wrapped her waist with fortitude, and she has strengthened her arm. ¹⁸She has tasted and seen that her tasks are good; her lamp shall not be extinguished at night. ¹⁹She has put her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle. ²⁰She has opened her hand to the needy, and she has extended her hands to the poor. ²¹She shall not fear, in the cold of snow, for her household. For all those of her household have been clothed two-fold. ²²She has made embroidered clothing for herself. Fine linen and purple is her garment.

⁹Let love be without falseness: hating evil, clinging to what is good,

¹⁰And behold, a woman meets him, dressed like a harlot, prepared to captivate souls: chattering and rambling,

²¹It is good to refrain from eating meat and from drinking wine, and from anything by which your brother is offended, or led astray, or weakened.