Likewise, you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conduct of the wives;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Let wives In the first six verses he gives instructions to married women.
1. By their modest and submissive dispositions to endeavour to gain and convert their husbands, showing them such a respect as Sara did, (whose daughters they ought to esteem themselves) who called Abraham her lord, or master; (Genesis xviii. 12.)
2. To be modest in their dress, without vanity;
3. That women take the greatest care of the hidden man, i.e. of the interior disposition of their heart, which he calls the incorruptibility of a quiet and a meek spirit;
4. Not fearing any trouble, when God's service or the duty to their husbands require it. (Witham)
