1 Timothy 2:10
but with good works, which is appropriate to women who profess godliness.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
In Context
11Let a woman learn in silence, in full subordination.
Cross References
Acts 9:36Now there was a certain disciple in Joppa named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds that she kept doing.
Ephesians 2:10You see, we are His ‘poem’, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared in advance in order that we should walk in them.
Titus 2:14who gave Himself for us, so that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.
1 Peter 2:12keeping your way of life among the nations praiseworthy (you being foreigners and sojourners), so that wherein they speak against you as evildoers, in spite of the praiseworthy deeds they have observed, they may glorify God in the day of visitation.
2 Peter 1:6and to the knowledge self-control, and to the self-control perseverance, and to the perseverance godliness,
Revelation 2:19‘I know your works —the love, the faith, the service—and your endurance; in fact your last works are 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 →