For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children,
She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,
when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.
and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.
Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's household manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out of their means.
and then as a widow until she was eighty-four. She did not depart from the temple, worshiping with fasting and prayer night and day.
Leave your fatherless children; I will keep them alive; and let your widows trust in me.”
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.
By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.
An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
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