1 Timothy 2:10

but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

In Context

9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

11A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.

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Cross References

Acts 9:36In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which is translated as Dorcas), who was always occupied with works of kindness and charity.

Ephesians 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.

Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

1 Peter 2:12Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

2 Peter 1:6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;

Revelation 2:19I know your deeds—your love, your faith, your service, your perseverance—and your latest deeds are greater than your 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 →

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