1 Timothy 2:10
but with good works; since this becomes women who profess godliness.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
In Context
11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
Cross References
Acts 9:36Now there was in Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which name, when translated, is Dorcas. She was full of good works and deeds of charity which she did.
Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God before prepared, that we should walk in them.
Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
1 Peter 2:12maintaining an honorable mode of life am one the Gentiles, that, inasmuch as they speak against you as evil-doers, they may, on account of your good works which they witness, glorify God in the day of visitation.
2 Peter 1:6and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness;
Revelation 2:19I know your works, and your love, and your faith, and your service, and your patience, and your works, the last greater than the first.
Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 2:10-15
Paul's Charge to Females. ( a. d. 64.) 9 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; 10 But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being… Read the whole commentary →