11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Holiness
• Marriage and Family

• Women in pastoral / ordained office

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 7:35 — And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
• 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• 1Pet 3:1 — 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;
• 1Pet 3:3 — Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
• 1Pet 3:3 — Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
• 1Pet 3:5 — For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:
• 1Tim 2:9 — In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
• 1Tim 2:9 — In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
• 1Tim 3:8 — Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• 1Tim 3:8 — Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• 1Tim 3:11 — Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• 1Tim 3:11 — Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
• 1Tim 5:5 — Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
• 1Tim 5:23 — Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.
• 2Tim 3:3 — Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
• Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
• Heb 5:12 — For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong me
• Jas 4:11 — Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of
• John 6:70 — Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
• Lev 19:16 — Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.
• Ps 101:5 — Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
• Rev 12:10 — And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused the
• Rom 15:14 — And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
• Rom 16:2 — That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.
• Titus 1:7 — For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
• Titus 2:4 — That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,