¹⁰ Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

¹² She does him good, and not harm, All the days of her life.

¹³ She seeks wool and flax, And works eagerly with her hands.

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.

²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them, And delivers sashes to the merchant.

²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

²⁶ She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

²⁷ She looks well to the ways of her household, And doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

²⁸ Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

¹³ She seeks wool and flax, And works eagerly with her hands.

¹⁴ She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.

¹⁵ She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And portions for her servant girls.

¹⁶ She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

¹⁷ She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.

¹⁸ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.

¹⁹ She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.

²⁰ She opens her arms to the poor; Yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

²¹ She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed with scarlet.

⁹ In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

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

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;

² seeing your pure behavior in fear.

³ Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

⁴ but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

⁵ For this is how the holy women before, who hoped in God, also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are, if you do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

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.

²² Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.

²⁴ But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

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

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;

⁸ My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

¹² For as woman came from man, so a man also comes through a woman; but all things are from God.

¹³ Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?