1 Timothy 2:10
But (as becommeth women that professe the feare of God) with good workes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
In Context
11Let the woman learne in silence with all subiection.
Cross References
Acts 9:36There was also at Ioppa a certaine woman, a disciple named Tabitha (which by interpretation is called Dorcas) she was full of good workes and almes which she did.
Ephesians 2:10For we are his workemanship created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes, which God hath ordeined, that we should walke in them.
Titus 2:14Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes.
1 Peter 2:12And haue your conuersation honest among the Gentiles, that they which speake euill of you as of euill doers, may by your good woorkes which they shall see, glorifie God in the day of visitation.
2 Peter 1:6And with knowledge, temperance: and with temperance, patience: and with patience, godlines:
Revelation 2:19I knowe thy workes and thy loue, and seruice, and faith, and thy patience, and thy workes, and that they are more at the last, then at 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 →