1 Timothy 2:7-9

International Standard Version

⁷ For this reason I was appointed to be an announcer, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the gentiles. (I am telling you the truth.^[a] I am not lying.)

Instructions to Men and Women

⁸ Therefore, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative. ⁹ Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not with elaborate hairstyles or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes,