Genesis 2:18

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

Enoch 15:5

Therefore, have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.

​1Co 11:3

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is Alahayim.

• A woman is given unto a man for an help in this life for their salvation. The man being the woman's head [1Co 11:3] and lord, her desire is unto him, [Gen 3:16] having a care for his wellbeing [Sir 26:22] while subjecting herself to his rule over her [Gen 3:16] to go in the ways of Alahayim as he would have her to for her salvation. [Eph 5:22-24];

Sir 26:22

...a married woman is a tower against death to her husband.

Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman he said,.. thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

1 Peter 3:5-6

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in Alahayim, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands: 6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters ye are, as long as ye do well, and are not afraid with any amazement.

Ephesians 5:22, 24, 23, 33

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

1 Peter 3:7

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

Sir 3:2, 11  

For the Lord hath given the father honour over the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons. 11 For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father..

• This is the hierarchy of the household according to sound doctrine wherein, as the head of the house, the man loves his wife as himself, giving honor unto her as the weaker vessel by walking in the knowledge of the law with her in everything as her guide in this life; and he, being her lord and head, is reverenced by her as she has her desire unto him with care for his wellbeing, subjecting herself unto his rule over her. Likewise, he has honor over the children as well, being the head of the household. The woman is also honored by her children in word and deed, [Sir 3:8] going in the good ways she trained them up to walk, [Pro 22:6] unto the honoring of their father's house, as he is their glory. [Sir 3:11] A man's household begins with a woman, [Sir 36:24] who is his glory, [1Co 11:7] and she builds it up in uprightness for them, [Ruth 4:11] even as Jacob's wives built his house;

Sir 36:24; 26:16

He that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest. 

Ruth 4:11

...Ahayah make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel..

Sir 26:16, 13

As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house. 13 The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fat his bones.

Proverbs 31:27, 11-12, 28

She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

• A good woman does these good works in a man's house for his wellbeing and their posterity's prosperity, garnering her praise from him and their children. For such reasons, she is the glory of the man;

1Co 11:7-9

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of Alahayim: but the woman is the glory of the man.​ 8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

• The man is the glory and image of Alahayim, while the woman is the glory of the man because the woman came from the man and was created for him as his helpmeet and pillar of rest. Having rule over her, he is her lord, whom she reverences as the savior of her body and has her desire unto, as a tower against death for him out of her care for his wellbeing. At the same time, the man loves her as himself, cherishing and nurturing her as Christ does the Church, giving himself as a living sacrifice in good works and guiding her in the ways of Alahayim for their salvation. The hierarchy of the family was corrupted by spiritual fornication in idolatry which is the cause of all evil. Operating in the spirit of Fornication to serve idols, men didn't keep their marriages pure nor in proper order. They also committed adultery, whether by polluting their flesh and/or doing things like unto the heathen (sinning), walking in uncleanness, all of which affected their family. 

Testament of Reuben 4:6-7

For a pit unto the soul is the sin of fornication, separating it from Alahayim, and bringing it near to idols, because it deceiveth the mind and understanding, and leadeth young men into Hades before their time. 7 For many hath fornication destroyed; because, though a man be old or noble, or rich or poor, he bringeth reproach upon himself with the sons of men and derision with Beliar. 

Wisdom of Solomon 14:12, 21-22, 24

For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, and the invention of them the corruption of life. 21 And this was an occasion to deceive the world: for men, serving either calamity or tyranny, did ascribe unto stones and stocks the incommunicable name. 22 Moreover this was not enough for them, that they erred in the knowledge of Alahayim; but whereas they lived in the great war of ignorance, those so great plagues called they peace. 24 They kept neither lives nor marriages any longer undefiled: but either one slew another traiterously, or grieved him by adultery.

Matthew 5:28

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Jeremiah 5:8

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Hermas Mandate 4

1[29]:9 Not only," saith he, "is it adultery, if a man pollute his flesh, but whosoever doeth things like unto the heathen committeth adultery. 

Wisdom of Solomon 14:25-27

So that there reigned in all men without exception blood, manslaughter, theft, and dissimulation, corruption, unfaithfulness, tumults, perjury, 26 Disquieting of good men, forgetfulness of good turns, defiling of souls, changing of kind, disorder in marriages, adultery, and shameless uncleanness. 27 For the worshipping of idols not to be named is the beginning, the cause, and the end, of all evil.

• The men's idolatry opened their household up to idols, not having a hedge of protection from Christ over their wives because of their good works unto Alahayim. Without Alahayim keeping the household, their wives and daughters would operate in the spirit of Fornication as well; 

Sir 36:25

Where no hedge is, there the possession is spoiled...

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

• Through idolatry, the disorder in marriages would also lead women operating in the spirit of Fornication to rule over their men rather than submit themselves to their husbands out of reverence;

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

• The children being their oppressors, would also lift themselves up against their fathers, dishonoring them in word and deed, being raised without the nurture of the Lord in an idolatrous household. As for "no longer keeping marriages undefiled," men and women would be given to their lusts to trespass against one another, whether in spiritual fornication to lust after others or by polluting their flesh in the act of fornication with another;

Romans 1:24-27

Wherefore Alahayim also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of Alahayim into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause Alahayim gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

• Fornication was being committed by men and women through idolatry. Likewise, the women did change their natural use as an help and pillar of rest unto their husbands so that nothing may be wanting unto them in the earth through the irreverence for another that Fornication causes; 

Testament of Judah 13:2-4

For the spirit of fornication hath wine as a minister to give pleasure to the mind; for these two also take away the mind of man. 3 For if a man drink wine to drunkenness, it disturbeth the mind with filthy thoughts leading to fornication, and heateth the body to carnal union; and if the occasion of the lust be present, he worketh the sin, and is not ashamed. 4 Such is the inebriated man, my children; for he who is drunken reverenceth no man.

• Remember, wine is a minister to Fornication, so if one is given to that spirit, one would operate in the works of it, whether drunken or not. For the women, when operating in the spirit of Fornication so as not to have reverence, it leads them to try to conquer men rather than submit themselves unto them, whether by outward attraction or craft (manipulation);

Testament of Reuben 5:1, 3-4; 6:1

For evil are women, my children; and since they have no power or strength over man, they use wiles by outward attractions, that they may draw him to themselves. 3 For moreover, concerning them, the angel of the Lord told me, and taught me, that women are overcome by the spirit of fornication more than men, and in their heart they plot against men; and by means of their adornment they deceive first their minds, and by the glance of the eye instill the poison, and then through the accomplished act they take them captive. 4 For a woman cannot force a man openly, but by a harlot’s bearing she beguiles him. 6:1 Flee, therefore, fornication, my children, and command your wives and your daughters, that they adorn not their heads and faces to deceive the mind: because every woman who useth these wiles hath been reserved for eternal punishment.

• ​An example of Fornication at work was before the flood, wherein the women didn't reverence their husbands but rather adorned themselves to allure the Watchers (Angels) through outward attraction to lust after them and commit fornication with them;

Testament of Reuben 6:2-4 

For thus they allured the Watchers who were before the flood; for as these continually beheld them, they lusted after them, and they conceived the act in their mind; 3 for they changed themselves into the shape of men, and appeared to them when they were with their husbands 4 And the women lusting in their minds after their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven.

• Both men and women operating in the spirit of Fornication caused disorder in the hierarchy of the household. The men's idolatry corrupted their households. As for their wives, being overcome by the spirit of Fornication, they had no reverence for their men nor Alahayim, by forsaking His law of obedience to their husbands' rule over them, {Gen 3:16} being misled to allure and lust after the angels though already married themselves. 

Enoch 6:2; 7:1

And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: ‘Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.’ 7:1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them..

• Due to these events of the past and the woman truly being the glory of the man, the woman's head covering is a symbol of her man's authority over her, abiding under the hedge of Christ through him for protection from the evil angels:

1Co 11:10

For this cause ought the woman to have power G1849 on her head because of the angels.

• The power of the head-covering she wears out of honor for her head of household, whether father or husband, is a symbol of his authority over her, for protection from the evil angels;

 

Definition:

G1849

ἐξουσία

exousia

ex-oo-see'-ah

Thayers Definition:

the power of rule or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed.)

d. a sign of the husbands authority over his wife.

1. the veil with which propriety required a woman to cover herself.

e. the sign of regal authority, a crown.

• (a wife's veil is a crown upon her head.)​​​​

• By definition, a woman’s head-covering is a token of the control or authority her husband has. Prior to marriage, her father has this authority and control over her, caring for her body. Her father gives this authority over to the man of understanding in marriage. {Sirach 22:4- 5}

Sir 7:24-25  

Hast thou daughters? have a care of their body, and shew not thyself cheerful toward them. 25  Marry thy daughter, and so shalt thou have performed a weighty matter: but give her to a man of understanding.

• Also, the man has responsibility for the life of the woman too, as the savior of her body who he dwells with according to the knowledge of the law so that their prayers be not hindered through pride and/or bitterness (nourishing hatred);

​Colossians 3:19

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Ephesians 5:25

...even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Testament of Dan 6:9

..for he is true and long-suffering, meek and lowly, and teacheth by his works the law of Alahayim.

Ephesians 5:26-27, 23

That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 

1Pe 3:7  

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. 

Psalms 138:6

Though Ahayah be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

• This work of love as the head of household to save his family by doing what's right according to the law in everything for the sanctification and cleansing of his wife for her salvation is the same work Christ did for his wife:

Ephesians 5:1-2, 28-29

Be ye therefore followers of Alahayim, as dear children; 2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to Alahayim for a sweetsmelling savour. 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

• The man and woman are essential to each other. They are to walk as one in Christ Yache, serving one another for each other's good unto edification;

1Co 11:11-12

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord. 12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of Alahayim.

1 Corinthians 7:33-34

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife. 34.. she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Romans 15:2

Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

• The man is the head of the woman, but they are one together having need of one another, and the Holy Spirit is beautified when they agree together, serving the Lord in one mind, being after the same judgment in His law and speaking the same things in humility;

 Sir 25:1  

In three things I was beautified, and stood up beautiful both before Alahayim and men: the unity of brethren, the love of neighbours, a man and a wife that agree together.​

1 Corinthians 1:10

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Yache Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

​Romans 12:16

Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
 

Further Edification on the Hierarchy of the Household

Sir 3:2

For the Lord hath given the father honor over the children, and hath confirmed the authority of the mother over the sons. ​

Fathers

• The father has honor over the children, even as the Father has honor over Christ, the Son. The head of Christ is Alahayim, the Holy Father. The Holy Spirit, being Christ's true Mother and the Mother of all creation, is not the head of Christ, even as the woman is not the head of the man, nor is a mother the head of her sons or daughters. Christ is the head of the Church, his wife, even as Ahayah is the Head of his wife, the Holy Spirit. The wife is one flesh with her husband, {Gen 2:23-24} so she is a representation of him, even as the Church represents the Son of Alahayim {Hermas Parable 9 1[78]:1} and the Holy Spirit is the image of the Father's goodness. [Wis 7:26] So the wife operates in unity with her husband, instructing the sons so that the husband may leave one like unto himself in the earth. {Sir 30:3-4} For a mother, the authority over the sons in their youth (up until age 15) is given to her, {Sir 3:2} even as Yache was under the authority of Mary, his mother according to the flesh, in his youth before the age of manhood. {Luk 2:41-51} 

Mothers

• The mother guides the house in the instruction of the Lord that she learns from her husband to be after his mind [Sir 7:26] in the commandments [Sir 6:37] as they grow together in the faith. {Polycarp to Php 4:1-2} In their youth, the sons are in subjection to both their parents even as Yache was to his parents on earth, honoring them. {Luke 2:51} When they come amongst the society of men at age 15, they aren't under the authority of their mothers anymore as a woman ought not to usurp authority over a man, being men themselves at that age, though they continue to honor her by continuing in the sober-minded ways of their father as she taught them in their youth. The mother learns wisdom and instruction from her husband {1Co 14:35} to guide the sons in their youth, even as the Holy Spirit, being conversant with Ahayah, [Wis 8:3-4] received her prudence and knowledge from Him, [Pro 8:12] which she poured, without measure, upon Yache, their Son, {Jhn 3:34-35; Isa 11:2-5} by His instruction, that he may be like unto his Father in all things. {Jhn 14:7-9} Yache is prosperous in all things [Test of Judah 1:4-6] because he obeys the voice of his Father, {Jhn 12:49-50} doing the things that please Him in His commandments [Jhn 8:29] which also justifies his Mother {Luke 7:35} as he is keeping her ways that she taught him in his youth, [Pro 8:32; Sir 1:5] walking in the laws she gave him to aid him in fulfilling the will of the Father, her husband. [Wis 6:18-19] This is just as righteous sons will keep the commands of their father and the laws of their mother which guide them in fulfilling their father's instructions. {Pro 6:20} A mother behaves as is becoming of holiness {Tit 2:2-4} and teaches her children the humility of the fear of the Lord, {1Clem 21:7-8} walking in it herself, being of a lowly estate in mind so as to treat her children as her brother and sister in Christ, not lording over them, {Rom 12:16; 1Pe 1:3} but inspiring them unto walking in the judgments of their father, {Apoc of Paul 13} doing so herself as an ensample and aid unto them all. {Mrk 10:42-44}

Daughters

• A father has care over his daughter's body, {Sir 7:24;42:9-11} just as he is the savior of his wife's body. {Eph 5:23} A father has authority over his daughter to keep her as a virgin for her salvation and greater gifts in the kingdom [Apoc of Paul 21] or to give her in marriage if Alahayim wills him to do so {1 Cor 7:36-38} wherein she shall receive her blessings in the kingdom for keeping the chastity of her nuptials in this life. {Apoc of Paul 21} If he does give her in marriage, he performs a weighty matter by giving her to a man of understanding. {Sir 7:25; Tob 7:13} Both sons and daughters, do service unto their parents as unto their masters, {Sir 3:7} even as Yache and his sisters, the holy spirits, serve the Holy Father and Holy Spirit, the Mother of all creation. A mother guides her daughter in the ways of humility as her father would have her to go unto his honor, {Sir 22:5} teaching the good things she learned from their head of household, and behaving as is becoming of holiness {Tit 2:2-5} that she may teach her daughter by her example to be a virtuous woman {Pro 31:10-31} as sister, daughter, and wife if it be Alahayim's will she be given in marriage. {Pro 31:10-31}

​Sons

• The sons have power over their sisters as well, even as Yache, the Son of Ahayah, has power over the 12 holy spirits. {Hermas Parable 9 [2:3;13:2;15:1-2]} One can confirm a son has power over his sister by evidence of him having authority to give her in marriage in agreement with his father {Gen 34:5-14} or if the father is absent as well. { Jubilee 30:7} The sons protect and guide their sisters to go in the ways their father would have them to go by the instruction and wisdom of their mother in their youth and in obedience to the voice of their father, who is the head of the household. When they become men at age 15, they still have power over their sister to help her go in the way their father would have her to go, doing so in the fruits of righteousness they learned in their upbringing from their mother in their youth. Their mother now just exhorts them to continue being sober minded as she no longer teaches them doctrine lest she be usurping authority over the men. When their sister is given in marriage, that power over her is given unto her husband, their brother-in-law, who is now the savior of her body. They continue to have a care for the wellbeing of their sister, hoping the marriage prospers wherein she is treated well and behaving uprightly herself, to the honoring of their father's house. 

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Benefits of the Righteous Household for the Sons:

• The hierarchy of the family prepares the sons for adulthood and marriage. The son, having learned to honor his parents, being in subjection unto them with due reverence, reciprocates that nurture and gentleness he experiences from them by guiding and protecting his sister(s). In the process, he learns to be patient and long-suffering with his sister(s) in love, cherishing her as he has seen and experienced his father do with her and his mother. He also learns to be delicate and affectionate in loving nurture as he has seen and experienced his mother and father do, all of which will prepare him to be a good husband in truth if the Lord wills for him to have a wife because he will know how to love her as a sister first, having loved his own sister in righteousness by the example of his parents. It will also prepare him to be a good father in truth, having had his own father's example as well.

 

Benefits of the Righteous Household for the Daughters:

• This hierarchy is also a nurturing environment to prepare a daughter for adulthood and healthy marriage life because she learns to be shamefaced toward all men, reverent towards her head of household, a source of comfort unto him in his life, and an helpmeet unto him, having a care for his and their household's wellbeing, all by the example of her mother's good ways and character. The experience of her mother's subjection to her father in affection and reverence for him, along with her own experiences of the same towards him, coupled with her affectionate reverence with obedience to her brother(s), who look out for her with affection themselves, prepares her to be a source of kindness, love, gentleness, strength, and comfort as a nail in the tent of a man's house. Serving her parents as her masters and aiding her brothers in love prepares her to be a helpmeet unto her husband, who will be her lord to whom her desire shall be towards, to please him uprightly and be a tower against death out of her concern for his wellbeing, following her mother's example. Her virtuous mother's example of not being idle, hardworking in business and guiding her house in the fear of the Lord gives her an example of how to be virtuous as well. She also learns from her mother how to be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, sound in charity, sound in patience, not a false accuser, not given to much wine, chaste, gentle, good, discreet, loving unto her husband and children, obedient to her husband, a keeper at home, and a teacher of good things to her own children in the future. This environment also teaches a daughter not to usurp authority over a man, which would be reproach unto her by seeing how her mother reverences her husband and treats her brothers as brethren in their youth and more-so when they become of age themselves. {Sir 22:5; 42:10; I Tim 2:12} The environment encourages her to walk in humility, honoring her own soul, as well as her father, mother, and brethren, as they all have care over her as well. This environment prepares her for marriage as she walks in humility and obedience towards her parents and siblings, understanding the love her brothers and parents have shown through guiding her on the right paths her father would have her to go in. This will also enable her to have a flourishing relationship with her husband, whom she will reverence as a brother firstly, having loved her brothers, and love affectionately as a wife, having learned from her mother's relationship with her father. Thus, parents working as one unit to raise their household together brings forth righteousness by being examples of believers to their children, showing them how to love and honor one another, just as Lord Yache learned from the Holy Father and Wisdom, his true Mother. ​

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​The Value of a Virtuous Woman

• Raising up children in the right way to build up a household is kept in kindly remembrance with Alahayim for such good works;

Testament of Naphtali 8:4-5

If ye work that which is good, my children, both men and angels shall bless you; and Alahayim shall be glorified among the Gentiles through you, and the devil shall flee from you, and the wild beasts shall fear you, and the Lord shall love you, and the angels shall cleave to you. 5 As a man who has trained a child well is kept in kindly remembrance: so also for a good work there is a good remembrance before Alahayim. 

• For these reasons, raising a child right grieves the enemy as it will to the honor of Alahayim and the man’s house by not departing from the right way in adulthood; 

Sirach 30:3-4

He that teacheth his son grieveth the enemy: and before his friends he shall rejoice of him. 4 Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself. 

Proverbs 22:6 

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

• A woman, a man’s helpmeet, is all important in this nurturing process of ordering the house for it to be built up in uprightness;

Sir 26:16 

As the sun when it ariseth in the high heaven; so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.

• Just as the sun is necessary in the earth for light and prosperity for all things that grow in the earth, [Jub 2:9] so does a good wife's light in good works aid the prosperity of the growth of children in a household. For this reason amongst others, she is invaluable to a household;

Sir 40:19; 26:15

Children and the building of a city continue a man's name: but a blameless wife is counted above them both. 26:15 A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued.

• Understanding the blessing of a house built up in uprightness and its kind remembrance with Alahayim, in scripture, it's prayed for as a custom of blessing upon newlyweds for a man's wife (or wives) to build the house by raising up righteous children, even as virtuous women like Rachel and Leah did for Israel's household;

Rth 4:11

And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses: Ahayah make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:​​

• In the sight of Alahayim, a blameless wife is counted above children for some of the following reasons: 1. Being in agreement with her husband beautifies the Holy Spirit. [Sir 25:1] 2. Her continent mind cannot be valued. [Sir 26:14-15] 3. She increases her husband's joy and quality of life by her grace. [Sir 26:13] 4. She is an help, pillar of rest, and tower of defense against death for her husband. [Sir 36:24, 22]  5. Her beauty is shown in her ordering of the house (children), [Sir 26:16] guiding the sons to be as their father [Sir 30:4] and daughters to go in the ways of wisdom and humility, to the honor of their father's house. [Sir 22:3-5] 6. Her subjection to her husband and chaste conversation (manner of life) converts unbelievers (whoever they may be) to the faith. [1Pe 3:1-2]

Proverbs 31:10

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

• Her continent mind is invaluable as it shows forth in her good works like being silent, loving, shamefaced and faithful;

1 Clem. 21:7

let them show forth their lovely disposition of purity; let them prove their sincere affection of gentleness; let them make manifest the moderation of their tongue through their silence...

Sir 26:14-15, 13

A silent and loving woman is a gift of the Lord; and there is nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed. 15 A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued. 13 The grace of a wife delighteth her husband, and her discretion will fat his bones.​

• These invaluable fruits of a virtuous woman aid in her husband's prosperity as she is a help and pillar of rest unto him, being a tower against death, having her concern for his wellbeing;

Sir 36:24  

that getteth a wife beginneth a possession, a help like unto himself, and a pillar of rest.

Sir 26:22, 16  

An harlot shall be accounted as spittle; but a married woman is a tower against death to her husband. 16 As the Sun when it ariseth in the high heaven: so is the beauty of a good wife in the ordering of her house.

• Her efforts in the household will be shown in the children's good works and the trust her husband has in her taking care of the house.

Pro 14:1; 31:27, 11

Every wise woman buildeth her house...31:27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. 31:11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 

• His blessed portion of a good wife will be shown in his sons being like unto him, having been trained up in their youth from their mother to do so;

Sir 30:4 

Though his father die, yet he is as though he were not dead: for he hath left one behind him that is like himself.

• Also, a parent or parents operating in idolatry in a household can be shown in a wife's and/or the children's struggles as well;

Hosea 4:12-13

My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their Alahayim. 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.Sir 11:28

Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.

• Side Note: There are instances where children make their own choices to go astray in their pride despite the uprightness of their parents as well as children going in the right way to cover the baseness of their parents, in either case choosing a different path for themselves. [Sir 22:9-10] Nonetheless, generally speaking,  a man may be known in his children if he was not doing right himself while he lived. Also, his wife's works may be shown as well because an unwise woman would tear down a house with her works too, which can affect her husband and children;

Proverbs 14:1 

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. 

Sir 25:22-23 

A woman, if she maintain her husband, is full of anger, impudence, and much reproach. 23 A wicked woman abateth the courage, maketh an heavy countenance and a wounded heart: a woman that will not comfort her husband in distress maketh weak hands and feeble knees.

• If a man isn’t walking in the fear of the Lord, he may be given a woman who is struggling with idolatry as well to help either of them (or both of them, Lord willing) come to repentance;

Sir 26:23 

A wicked woman is given as a portion to a wicked man: but a holy woman is given to him that feareth the Lord.

• When a man is walking in ways that please the Lord, his wife may be converted if he is already married or he will be given a wife that would build up his house on the foundation of Christ. In either case, her good works won't be hid as it will be seen in him and his children's prosperity and his trust in her. The children's works to honor or dishonor their father can give indication of the choices they made for themselves in their upbringing as well, regardless of how well or how poorly they were raised by their parents, as even poor upbringings provide an opportunity to choose a better way of living, having learned from the traumatic experiences;

Ecclesiasticus 22:9-10 

If children live honestly, and have wherewithal, they shall cover the baseness of their parents. 10 But children, being haughty, through disdain and want of nurture do stain the nobility of their kindred.

• An example of these two choices in a child’s upbringing;

Ezekiel 18:5, 9, 10, 13-14, 17

But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, 9 Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord Ahayah. 10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things, 13 Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him. 14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like, 17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

• The children's works in good or evil do indicate the honor or dishonor they truly have for their father, whether he himself was upright or not. Their works can also give indications of whether they were well nurtured in their upbringing by their parent(s) as an unrighteous parent or parents can negatively affect the children's upbringing;

Sir 22:3-5

An evilnurtured man is the dishonour of his father that begat him: and a foolish daughter is born to his loss. 4 A wise daughter shall bring an inheritance to her husband: but she that liveth dishonestly is her father's heaviness. 5 She that is bold dishonoureth both her father and her husband, but they both shall despise her.

• Though the children have their own choices to make in life, the parents making the choice to walk in the faith helps bring forth living children who won't be overcome by the idols that seek to lead them astray from their youth unto perdition. Though they will have to work through the growing pains of youth to overcome idolatry like everyone else, having parents to guide them through the hurdles, educating them in gentleness, and setting an example for them, will build them up to get through the process as Rachel and Leah did unto the house of Israel;

Acts of Thomas 12

Remember, my children, what my brother said to you, and to whom he commended you; and know that if you refrain from this filthy intercourse you become temples holy and pure, being released from afflictions and troubles, known and unknown, and you will not be involved in the cares of life and of children, whose end is destruction.

• This is an example of how parents' decisions according to their lusts affect the children when they don't take the time to come to know themselves and each other uprightly in Christ to build a healthy relationship and household for the children to flourish. The patriarch, Judah, is evidence of this as in his ignorance, he wasn't well aware of himself and the spirits that were conspiring against him in his younger days which led him to marry for the sake of pleasure and gain (money), not observing the law and proper protocols of Alahayim for marriage in honor of his fathers' instructions. All of this led to him having a stressful relationship with his wife and children, cares (anxiety) regarding his children as things weren't going well with them either. The troubled relationship led to two of his sons dying in the idolatry at work in his household because their unbelieving mother led them astray from Alahayim, choosing to raise them according to her own standards rather than teaching them to go in their father's good ways and obey his instructions for them. Her works to tear the household down led to her death as well unfortunately, yet the relationship was a necessary learning experience in Judah's repentance by the grace of Alahayim;

Testament of Judah 10:1; 12:4-8; 10:3-5; 18:1-4

And I knew that the race of the Canaanites was wicked, but the impulse of youth blinded my mind. 2 And when I saw her pouring out wine, owing to the intoxication of wine I was deceived, and took her although my father had not counseled (it). 12:4 For I said to my father-in-law: I will take counsel with my father, and so will I take thy daughter. And he was unwilling, but he showed me a boundless store of gold in his daughter’s behalf; for he was a king. 12:5 And he adorned her with gold and pearls, and caused her to pour out wine for us at the feast with the beauty of women. 12:6 And the wine turned aside my eyes, and pleasure blinded my heart. 12:7 And I became enamoured of and I lay with her, and transgressed the commandment of the Lord and the commandment of my fathers, and I took her to wife. 12:8 And the Lord rewarded me according to the imagination of my heart, inasmuch as I had no joy in her children. 10:3 And while I was away she went and took for Shelah a wife from Canaan. 10:4 And when I knew what she had done, I cursed her in the anguish of my soul. 10:5 And she also died through her wickedness together with her sons. 18:1 My children, the love of money leadeth to idolatry; because, when led astray through money, men name as alahayims those who are not alahayims, and it causeth him who hath it to fall into madness. 18:2 For the sake of money I lost my children, and had not my repentance, and my humiliation, and the prayers of my father been accepted, I should have died childless. 18:3 But the Alahayim of my fathers had mercy on me, because I did it in ignorance. 4 And the prince of deceit blinded me, and I sinned as a man and as flesh, being corrupted through sins; and I learnt my own weakness while thinking myself invincible.

• Judah's experience shows we need the prayers of our righteous fathers for our deliverance as it was Jacob's prayers that aided him. For this reason we pray from our righteous fathers' houses, honoring them before Alahayim in hopes of Him being entreated for their sakes. Through Judah's experience, we also see we need the help of Alahayim's mercy upon us to keep our households together, being preserved from evil spirits, as it was by Alahayim's mercy that not all his children were destroyed by evil spirits' works and the ones that lived were blessed to continue his name in the earth, from which tribe our Lord Yache was born after the flesh. He is also evidence that such experiences of unhealthy relationships, though we may have made the wrong choice to get into them or got into them for the wrong reasons, they can be for our good as nothing happens without Alahayim, wherein we learn humility and ourselves to serve Alahayim in singleness, not going astray from Him, lest we suffer again like we did in our prior experiences. The reason we would not go astray is that we learned the necessary lessons to humble ourselves in the sight of Alahayim, so as not to depart from Him and His ways;

Barnabas 19:6 

The accidents that befall thee thou shalt receive as good, knowing that nothing is done without Alahayim.

Psalms of Solomon 3:6

He falleth and looketh out for what Alahayim will do to him; He seeketh out whence his deliverance will come.

1 Corinthians 7:32 

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

Testament of Reuben 4:1

Pay no heed, therefore, my children, to the beauty of women, nor set your mind on their affairs; but walk in singleness of heart in the fear of the Lord, and expend labour on good works, and on study and on your flocks, until the Lord give you a wife, whom He will, that ye suffer not as I did.

• Not marrying just for the sake of lust in physical attraction in the desire for intercourse or for unrighteous gain, but uprightly doing so for the upright reasons according to the counsel of Alahayim and going through the proper steps according to the law in humility will bring forth good results in the parents' and children's lives. Yet, if they marry for lust's sake or other carnal reasons, not taking the time to come together spiritually to uphold the faith as brother and sister so that the family may flourish, that carnality in the relationship has a high probability of affecting the children as there is no hedge of Alahayim's mercy through Christ about them to protect them from idols;

Acts of Thomas 12

But if you get many children, for their sakes you become grasping and avaricious, plundering orphans and deceiving widows, and by doing this you subject yourselves to most grievous punishments.

• These are some of the works of the parents who didn't do what it takes to uphold the faith themselves, for which they will be punished even though they may have thought the evil was justified to be done for the sake of their children. Also, their choices to sin against Alahayim can also affect their children's wellbeing;

For most children become unprofitable, being possessed by demons, some openly and some secretly. For they become either lunatics or half-withered or crippled or deaf or dumb or paralytics or idiots. And though they be healthy, they will be again good-for-nothing, doing unprofitable and abominable works. For they will be detected either in adultery or in murder or in theft or in unchastity, and by all these you will be afflicted.

• You can see how the parents' choice to do things according to their lust (self-will) in Wrath and Fornication, justifying what they're doing by thinking it's for the sake of their children, can lead to the children being possessed by demons and spirits of youth that attack them from a young age. In such instances, the children's works will negatively affect their parents, who will have to deal with the unprofitable fruit that will come from their choices in how they raised their children;

Sir 30:7-10

He that maketh too much of his son shall bind up his wounds; and his bowels will be troubled at every cry. 8 An horse not broken becometh headstrong: and a child left to himself will be wilful. 9 Cocker thy child, and he shall make thee afraid: play with him, and he will bring thee to heaviness. 10 Laugh not with him, lest thou have sorrow with him, and lest thou gnash thy teeth in the end.

• Now on the other hand, if the parents take the time to become brother and sister in Christ unto one another, having married uprightly and not for lust, doing the works of faith in themselves in obedience to preserve their souls, they can guide their children unto life, having Christ as a hedge about the household;

But if you obey and preserve your souls pure to Alahayim, there will be born to you living children, untouched by these hurtful things, and you will be without care, spending an untroubled life, free from grief and care, looking forward to receive that incorruptible and true marriage, and you will enter as groomsmen into that bridal chamber full of immortality and light.”

• Such people take the time to learn themselves (for their own self-awareness and accountability in the faith) and one another, working through that trust-building process so that their relationship may flourish as they themselves will be flourishing in Christ, which enables them to help each other and their children;

​Acts of Thomas 13

And when the young people heard this, they believed the Lord and gave themselves over to him and refrained from the filthy lust, and remained thus spending the night in the place. And the Lord went away from them saying, “the grace of the Lord be with you!”

• Instead of indulging in the lust of the flesh, they spent the night actually being vulnerable to get to know themselves and each other so that they can build on the foundation of Christ;

and when dawn came the king arrived, and having furnished the table brought it in before the bridegroom and the bride. And he found them sitting opposite each other, and he found the face of the bride uncovered, and the bridegroom was very cheerful. And the mother came in and said to the bride, “why do you sit thus, child, and are not ashamed, but act as if you had lived for a long time with your own husband?” And her father said, “is it because of your great love to your husband that you are unveiled?”

• This shows that they spent the night actually getting to know each other to the point wherein the bride was no longer ashamed to show herself and her vulnerabilities to her espoused husband. Her unwillingness to hide anything from him is seen by her remaining with him unveiled which indicates there was no deceit operating in her towards him to conceal her true self from him;

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