1 In the same way, you wives should yield to your husbands. Then, if some husbands do not obey God’s teaching, they will be persuaded to believe without anyone’s saying a word to them. They will be persuaded by the way their wives live.
2 Your husbands will see the pure lives you live with your respect for God.
3 It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful.
4 No, your beauty should come from within you—the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never be destroyed and is very precious to God.
5 In this same way the holy women who lived long ago and followed God made themselves beautiful, yielding to their own husbands.