1 Likewise, wives, be submitted to your own husbands so that—even if some do not obey the message—by the wives’ conduct, without a word they may be won over
2 as they observe your pure, reverent conduct.
3 Don’t let your beauty be external—braiding the hair and wearing gold jewelry or fine clothes.
4 Instead let it be in the hidden person of the heart, with the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
5 For this is the way the holy women, who put their hope in God, used to beautify themselves long ago—being submitted to their own husbands