but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.
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but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.
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but with suche as becometh wemen that professe the worshippynge of God thorow good workes.
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But (as becommeth women that professe the feare of God) with good workes.
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Passages linked to 1 Timothy 2:10 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Peter 2:12 having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.
- 1 Peter 3:3-5 Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God. For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.
- Proverbs 31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!
- Acts 9:36 Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.
- Revelation 2:19 “I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.
- Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
- Titus 3:8 This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
- 2 Peter 1:6-8 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness; and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Peter 3:11 Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
- Acts 9:39 Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
- 1 Timothy 5:6-10 But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives. Also command these things, that they may be without reproach. But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever. Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man, being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
- Titus 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 10 Which becometh women; for undoubtedly the dress of…
10 Which becometh women; for undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet. What he has laid down are marks of distinction; and if piety must be testified by works, this profession ought also to be visible in chaste and becoming dress.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good…
10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Ver. 10. But which becometh] Our common conversation should be as becometh the gospel of Christ, πολιτευεσθε, Php 1:27. And it is a sure sign of a base mind, to think that one can make himself great with anything that is less than himself; or that he can win more credit by his garments than by his graces. The worst apparel, saith one, is nature’s garment; the best, but folly’s garnish.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They ought to look at the ornament of good…
They ought to look at the ornament of good works; for those are the ornaments which best become women professing godliness, whose hearts should despise the ornament of the figure of excrementitious hair, or a little yellow earth, or a stone, or the work of a pitiful silkworm.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Let the woman learn in silence,.... The apostle goes…
Let the woman learn in silence,.... The apostle goes on to give some other instructions to women, how they should behave themselves in public worship, in the church of God; he would have them be learners and not teachers, sit and hear, and learn more of Christ, and of the truth of the Gospel, and to maintain good works; and he would have them learn in silence, and not offer to rise and speak, under a pretence of having a word from the Lord, or of being under an impulse of the Spirit of the Lord, as some frantic women have done; and if they should meet with anything, under the ministry of the word, they did not understand, or they had an objection to, they were not to speak in public, but ask their own husbands at home; see Co1 14:34. And thus, they were to behave
with all subjection; both to the ministers of the word, and to their own husbands; obeying from the heart the form of doctrine delivered to them; and submitting cheerfully to the ordinances of Christ; the whole of which is a professed subjection to the Gospel, and which becomes all professing godliness.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 10. But (which becometh, c.] That is: Good…
Verse 10. But (which becometh, c.] That is: Good works are the only ornaments with which women professing Christianity should seek to be adorned. The Jewish matrons were accustomed to cry to the bride: "There is no need of paint, no need of antimony, no need of braided hair she herself is most beautiful." The eastern women use a preparation of antimony, which they apply both to the eyes and eyelids, and by which the eye itself acquires a wonderful lustre.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain with good works}But (which becometh women professing godliness) with…
with good works}But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works - That is, it is not appropriate for women who profess to be the followers of the Saviour, to seek to be distinguished for personal, external decorations. If they are Christians, they have seen the vanity of these things, and have fixed the heart on more substantial realities. They are professed followers of Him “who went about doing good,” and the performance of good works especially becomes them. They profess to have fixed the affections on God their Saviour, and to be living for heaven; and it is not becoming in them to seek such ornaments as would indicate that the heart is supremely attached to worldly things. There is great beauty in this direction. Good works, or deeds of benevolence, eminently become a Christian female. The nature of woman seems to be adapted to the performance of all deeds demanding kindness, tenderness, and gentleness of feeling; of all that proceeds from pity, sympathy, and affection; and we feel instinctively that while acts of hardy enterprise and daring in a good cause especially become a Christian man, there is something exquisitely appropriate to the female character in deeds of humble and unobtrusive sympathy and benevolence. God seems to have formed her mind for just such things, and in such things it occupies its appropriate sphere rather than in seeking external adorning.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain professing--Greek, "promising": engaging to follow.
professing--Greek, "promising": engaging to follow.
with good works--The Greek preposition is not the same as in Ti1 2:9; "by means of," or "through good works." Their adorning is to be effected by means of good works: not that they are to be clothed in, or with, them (Eph 2:10). Works, not words in public, is their province (Ti1 2:8, Ti1 2:11-12; Pe1 3:1). Works are often mentioned in the Pastoral Epistles in order to oppose the loose living, combined with the loose doctrine, of the false teachers. The discharge of everyday duties is honored with the designation, "good works."
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 10. Good works—Are the true ornamentation of the Christian…
10. Good works—Are the true ornamentation of the Christian lady. She need make no display of asceticism, nor spend her time, money, and health in elaborating a singular plainness of style. Nor is it any virtue to dress cheaply to hoard money in the coffers. It is a poor sham to mistake cheap apparel for humility, when its savings are laid up for one’s children, perhaps to squander in dissipation. But a great appropriateness to her profession of godliness it is if she studies a true simplicity of taste, and spends what she saves by avoidance of extravagance in charities and good works. And all this good advice may be addressed, perhaps with double force, to the Christian gentleman. The money burnt up in cigars, and that largely by Christian men, might give the gospel to the world.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 10. which becometh women professing godliness] Best as A.V.…
10. which becometh women professing godliness] Best as A.V. and R.V. forming a parenthesis to justify the boldness of the dress recommended immediately after.
godliness] The noun occurs only here, the adjective only in Joh_9:31, ‘a worshipper of God.’ It seems to be distinguished from its kindred word above, 1Ti_2:2, thus: theosebeia looks to the worship being that of God in contrast to idols, and embodies the phrase in use for converts from heathen polytheism to Judaism throughout the Act_13:43; Act_13:50; Act_16:14; Act_17:4; Act_17:17; Act_18:7, ‘one that worshipped,’ and in full ‘one that worshipped God.’ While eusebeia, above and in nine other places in these epistles, by its prefix goes deeper than the change of outward worship—heart reverence and devotion, ‘the best worship’: as the years went on a natural advance urged on the Christian converts in whom the seed was ‘to grow secretly.’ In this place then, where it is a question of public worship and the right surroundings, the word chosen here is the exactly appropriate one; ‘You profess the worship of God by your coming to the public prayers: your best dress is to be known and esteemed for your zeal in acts of love and service for Him in His church.’
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with good works] R.V. through; the change of preposition suggests a change in the character of the phrase, that St Paul is now speaking metaphorically.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (10) But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good…
(10) But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.—That is to say, “Let them adorn themselves in that which is befitting women who profess godliness—viz., in good works.” The Apostle, still speaking of women’s true part in public divine service—urges that their works should be in accord with their words of prayer—tells them that a woman’s truest and most beautiful ornament consisted in those tender works of mercy and pity—her peculiar province—in other words, that they, like Dorcas of Joppa, whose praise is in the Book of Life, “should be full of good works and alms deeds” (Act_9:36).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Through for with, A.V (The change from "with" to…
Through for with, A.V (The change from "with" to "through" is quite unnecessary, though more strictly accurate. "With" does equally well for ejn and dia, the one applied to the ornaments and dress in or with which the woman adorns herself, the other to the good works by which she is adorned.) Professing godliness. In all ether passages in the New Testament where it occurs, ejpaggellesqai means "to promise," except inllesqai 1Ti_6:21, where, as here, it means "to profess," as it frequently does in classical Greek: Epagge ajrethn sofian, etc. Qeosebeia only occurs here in the New Testament; but it is used in the LXX in Job_28:28; Gen_20:11; also in Xenophon. In Joh_9:31 we have Qeosebhv, "a worshipper of God." Through good works. Compare the description of Dorcas. (Act_9:36, Act_9:39) Erga ajgaqa mean especially acts of charity (comp. 1Ti_5:10; 2Co_9:8, 2Co_9:9; rga Col_1:11; elsewhere it is us, d more generally, like e kala, though this phrase also sometimes points especially to acts of charity, as in 1Ti_5:10 1Ti_6:18; Heb_10:24
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 10. But. There is another adorning which better becomes…
10. But. There is another adorning which better becomes godly women. Let their lives be adorned by kindly, helpful deeds.
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