Whose adorning (ων κοσμος). Genitive plural of the relative referring to γυναικων (wives). Κοσμος has here its old meaning of orna…

Whose adorning. Whose ornament. The apostle refers here to a woman's propensity to seek what would be considered ornamental, or what will …

Whose adorning let it not be . . . .—The passage shows that the Asiatic Christians were not all of the poorer classes. Ma…

There is no ornament like that. No taste can ever conceive anything so lovely as a holy character. No expensive materials, and no ingenious fashion…

The divinely intended manner of life for wives is inward, not outward. Human beings constantly make superficial value judgments (see [Reference 1 S…

Whose adorning: The other part of the exhortation is that wives are to adorn themselves sparingly and modestly, for we know that in this r…

Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning
Or that only and principally; let not that be solely or chiefly …

The wife must fulfill her duty to her own husband, even if he does not obey the word. We see daily how closely evil men watch the ways and lives of…