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⁵be sensible, chaste, restrained, have concern for the household, be kind, be subordinate to their husbands: so that the Word of God may be not blasphemed.

⁴so that they may teach prudence to the young women, so that they may love their husbands, love their children, ⁵be sensible, chaste, restrained, have concern for the household, be kind, be subordinate to their husbands: so that the Word of God may be not blasphemed.

¹⁰Who shall find a strong woman? Far away, and from the furthest parts, is her price. ¹¹The heart of her husband confides in her, and he will not be deprived of spoils. ¹²She will repay him with good, and not evil, all the days of her life. ¹³She has sought wool and flax, and she has worked these by the counsel of her hands. ¹⁴She has become like a merchant’s ship, bringing her bread from far away. ¹⁵And she has risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and provisions to her maids.

¹A wise woman builds up her household. But a foolish one will pull down with her own hands what has been built up.

¹²For I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to be in authority over a man, but to be in silence.

¹⁶She has considered a field and bought it. From the fruit of her own hands, she has planted a vineyard.

¹⁸The Lord God also said: “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let us make a helper for him similar to himself.”

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

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, ⁵be sensible, chaste, restrained, have concern for the household, be kind, be subordinate to their husbands: so that the Word of God may be not blasphemed.

¹⁴Therefore, I want the younger women to marry, to procreate children, to be mothers of families, to provide no ready opportunity for the adversary to speak evil.

¹The words of king Lamuel. The vision by which his mother instructed him: ²“What, O my beloved? What, O beloved of my womb? What, O beloved of my vows? ³Do not give your substance to women, or your riches to overthrow kings. ⁴Not to kings, O Lamuel, not to kings give wine. For there are no secrets where drunkenness reigns. ⁵And perhaps they may drink and forget judgments, and alter the case of the sons of the poor. ⁶Give strong drink to the grieving, and wine to those who are bitter in soul.

¹⁷Let everything whatsoever that you do, whether in word or in deed, be done all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

³¹Give to her from the fruit of her own hands. And let her works praise her at the gates.

¹³Likewise, your daughters he will take for himself as makers of ointments, and as cooks and bakers.

²⁴She has made finely woven cloth and sold it, and she has delivered a waistband to the Canaanite.

¹¹Similarly, the women must be chaste, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

²⁵But the skillful women also gave whatever they had spun: hyacinth, purple, and vermillion, as well as fine linen,

⁴Now there was a prophetess, Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, who judged the people in that time.