“Actions speak louder than words, and the husbands will be persuaded by what they see, not by what they hear from their wives.”
Hilary of Arles, 5th c. — INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 1 PETER
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2While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
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1Likewise, ye 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 conversation of the wives;
— 1 Peter 3:2 —
3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.