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⁴It is not the wife, but the husband, who has power over her body. But, similarly also, it is not the husband, but the wife, who has power over his body.

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.

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

¹⁸Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body. ¹⁹Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

²⁵And there was a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years. ²⁶And she had endured much from several physicians, and she had spent everything she owned with no benefit at all, but instead she became worse. ²⁷Then, when she had heard of Jesus, she approached through the crowd behind him, and she touched his garment. ²⁸For she said: “Because if I touch even his garment, I will be saved.” ²⁹And immediately, the source of her bleeding was dried up, and she sensed in her body that she had been healed from the wound. ³⁰And immediately Jesus, realizing within himself that power that had gone out from him, turning to the crowd, said, “Who touched my garments?”

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, ²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God. ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance, ²³meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.

¹⁵Yet truly, if a woman grows her hair long, it is a glory for her, because her hair has been given to her as a covering.

³Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb.

³⁰Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.

²But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

¹⁹Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.

⁷Similarly, you husbands should live with them in accord with knowledge, bestowing honor on the female as the weaker vessel and as co-heirs of the life of grace, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

¹⁰Who shall find a strong woman? Far away, and from the furthest parts, is her price.

²⁸So, too, husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹For no man has ever hated his own flesh, but instead he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also does to the Church. ³⁰For we are a part of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.

²³And though we consider certain parts of the body to be less noble, we surround these with more abundant dignity, and so, those parts which are less presentable end up with more abundant respect. ²⁴However, our presentable parts have no such need, since God has tempered the body together, distributing the more abundant honor to that which has the need,

²⁵Strength and elegance are her clothing, and she will laugh in the final days.

¹³Jesus responded and said to her: “All who drink from this water will thirst again. But whoever shall drink from the water that I will give to him will not thirst for eternity. ¹⁴Instead, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.”

¹My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence, ²so that you may guard your thinking, and so that your lips may preserve discipline. Do not pay attention to the deceit of a woman. ³For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil. ⁴But in the end, she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵Her feet descend into death, and her steps reach even to Hell. ⁶They do not walk along the path of life; her steps are wandering and untraceable.

⁵“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And before you went forth from the womb, I sanctified you. And I made you a prophet to the nations.”

³A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should also act similarly toward her husband.

³Old women, similarly, should be in holy attire, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teaching well, ⁴so that they may teach prudence to the young women, so that they may love their husbands, love their children,

²⁷And God created man to his own image; to the image of God he created him; male and female, he created them.

²⁰For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.

⁴And he said to them in response, “Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female?” And he said: ⁵“For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.

¹You should not rebuke an old man, but rather plead with him, as if he were your father; with young men, like brothers; ²with old women, like mothers; with young women, in all chastity, like sisters.