¹ Every wise woman builds her house, But the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

¹ It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,

² and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary who was called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out;

³ and Joanna, the wife of Chuzas, Herod's steward; Susanna; and many others; who ministered to them{TR reads "him" instead of "them"} from their possessions.

⁴ When a great multitude came together, and people from every city were coming to him, he spoke by a parable.

³ and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

⁴ that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

⁵ to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

⁶ Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober-minded;

¹⁶ A gracious woman obtains honor, But violent men obtain riches.

¹¹ Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

⁷ You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

⁴ A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, But a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

¹ In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.