¹⁰ A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

¹¹ The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

¹² She doeth him good and not evil All the days of her life.

¹³ She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands.

⁷ Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with `your wives' according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

²⁴ She maketh linen garments and selleth them, And delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she laugheth at the time to come.

²⁶ She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

²⁷ She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

²⁸ Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband `also', and he praiseth her, `saying':

¹³ She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands.

¹⁴ She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.

¹⁵ She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens.

¹⁶ She considereth a field, and buyeth it; With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

¹⁷ She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.

¹⁸ She perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable: Her lamp goeth not out by night.

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

²⁰ She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; Yea, she reacheth forth 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 like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

¹¹ Women in like manner `must be' grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

¹ In like manner, ye wives, `be' in subjection to your won husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives;

² beholding your chaste behavior `coupled' with fear.

³ Whose `adorning' let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

⁴ but `let it be' the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible `apparel' of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

⁵ For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands:

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

⁷ Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with `your wives' according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

²² Wives, `be in subjection' unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

²³ For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the church, `being' himself the saviour of the body.

²⁴ But as the church is subject to Christ, so `let' the wives also `be' to their husbands in everything.

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

¹ Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

³ that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, 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 the word of God be not blasphemed:

⁶ the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

⁸ My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:

¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

¹² For as the woman is of the man, so is the man also by the woman; but all things are of God.

¹³ Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?