Esther 1:20 Cross References - CLV

²⁰ When the king's rescript, that he must execute, is announced in all his kingdom, vast as it is, then all wives shall render esteem to their spouses from the greatest unto the smallest.'.

¹³ and all the people shall hear and fear, and not act arrogantly again.

²¹ Then all the men of his city will pelt him with stones so that he dies. Thus you will eradicate the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.

²² Let the wives be subject to their own husbands, as to the Lord,

³³ Moreover, you also individually, each be loving his own wife thus, as himself, yet that the wife may be fearing the husband."

¹⁸ Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is proper in the Lord."

¹ Likewise wives may do it by being subject to their own husbands, that, if any are stubborn also, as to the word, they will be gained without a word, through the behavior of their wives, ² being spectators of your pure behavior in fear, ³ whose adornment, let it not be the outside, of braiding aught into the hair and of decking with gold, or putting on of garments, ⁴ but the hidden human of the heart, in the incorruptibility of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in God's sight, is costly." ⁵ For thus once the holy women also, whose expectation was in God, adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands" ⁶ (as Sarah obeys Abraham, calling him "lord,whose children you became), doing good and not fearing dismay in anything." ⁷ Husbands, likewise, may do it by making a home with them according to knowledge, awarding honor to the feminine as to the weaker vessel, as to those who are also joint enjoyers of the allotment of the varied grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered."