Their teaching will improve your character as a handsome turban or a necklace improves your appearance.

They will provide you with life---a pleasant and happy life.

I also want the women to be modest and sensible about their clothes and to dress properly; not with fancy hair styles or with gold ornaments or pearls or expensive dresses,

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who claim to be religious.

Instead, your beauty should consist of your true inner self, the ageless beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of the greatest value in God's sight.

Long life is the reward of the righteous; gray hair is a glorious crown.

A day is coming when the LORD Almighty will be like a glorious crown of flowers for his people who survive.

You made them for a little while lower than the angels; you crowned them with glory and honor,

But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that through God's grace he should die for everyone. We see him now crowned with glory and honor because of the death he suffered.

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the glorious crown which will never lose its brightness.

To those who win the victory I will give the right to sit beside me on my throne, just as I have been victorious and now sit by my Father on his throne.