Dear Restless Daughters

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply…

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. 

There are many devices in a man’s heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord, that shall stand.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. 

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient… backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents.

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 

For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

That they [the older women] may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.