1 Peter 3:5
For so formerly also the nashim hakedoshot (holy women) whose tikvah was in Hashem were adorning themselves, submitting themselves to their own ba'alim.
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1 Samuel 2:1And Channah davened, and said, 1 My lev rejoiceth in Hashem, 1 mine keren is exalted in Hashem; 1 my mouth is opened wide over mine oyevim; 1 because I rejoice with simchah in Thy Yeshu'ah (Salvation). 1
Proverbs 31:30Chen (charm) is sheker (deceitful), and yofi (beauty) is fleeting; 1 but an isha Yirat Hashem (a G-d fearing wife), she shall be praised. 1
Luke 2:37And then to the age of eighty-four she had lived as an almanah (widow) who was not departing from the Beis HaMikdash, serving yomam valailah (day and night) with tzomot (fastings) and tefillos.
Acts 1:14These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to tefillah, with the nashim and with Miryam the Em of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and with his achim.
1 Timothy 2:10But with what is proper for nashim professing yirat Shomayim, that is, by means of ma'asim tovim (good works).
1 Timothy 5:5Now the true almanah, left alone, has set her tikvah on Hashem and continues in her techinnah + 5:5 2:1 and her tefillos yomam valailah.
Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:2-8
Duties of Husbands and Wives. ( a. d. 66.) 1 Likewise, 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; 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; 4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet… Read the whole commentary →