1 Wives, likewise, subject yourselves to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, [that] by the conduct of their wives, without a word, they shall be gained [for Christ],2 when they observe your chaste conduct with fear.3 Of whom let it not be the outward adorning of braiding of hair, and wearing of gold, or of putting on of [fine] clothes,4 rather [let it be] the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible [attitude] of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious before God.5 For thus formerly, the holy women who hoped on God also adorned themselves, subjecting themselves to their own husbands,6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, of whom you became children, when you do good and are not afraid of any terror.