15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. …
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
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;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)I. Here is a charge, that women who profess the Christian religion should be modest, sober, silent, and submissive, as becomes their place. 1. They must be very modest in their apparel, not affecting gaudiness, gaiety, or costliness (you may read the vanity of a person’s mind in the gaiety and gaudiness of his habit), because they have better ornaments with which they should adorn themselves, with…
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