1 Timothy 2:10
but — which becometh women professing godly piety — through good works.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
In Context
11Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
Cross References
Acts 9:36And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;
Ephesians 2:10for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
Titus 2:14who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
1 Peter 2:12having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
2 Peter 1:6and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,
Revelation 2:19I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works — and the last [are] more 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 →