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1 Timothy 2:10
1 Timothy 2:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
- New International Version (NIV)but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.
- English Standard Version (ESV)but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
- New King James Version (NKJV)but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.
Context of 1 Timothy 2:10
8I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning. 9In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited [hair] and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works. 11Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection; 12but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;
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ἀλλ᾽ ὃ πρέπει γυναιξὶν ἐπαγγελλομέναις θεοσέβειαν, δι᾽ ἔργων ἀγαθῶν.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Timothy 2:10
- 1 Peter 3:3whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;
- 2 Peter 3:11All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,
- 1 Timothy 5:6But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead [while] living.
- Proverbs 31:31Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.
- Acts 9:36And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, which being interpreted means Dorcas. She was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did.
- Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.
- 1 Peter 2:12having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that [as to that] in which they speak against you as evildoers, they may through [your] good works, [themselves] witnessing [them], glorify God in [the] day of visitation.
- 2 Peter 1:6in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness,
- Revelation 2:19I know thy works, and love, and faith, and service, and thine endurance, and thy last works [to be] more than the first.
Commentaries on 1 Timothy 2:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10But (which becometh, etc. - That is: Good works are the only ornaments with which women professing Christianity should seek to be adorned. The Jewish matrons were accustomed to cry to the bride: "There is no need of paint, no need of antimony, no need of braided hair; she herself is most beautiful." The eastern women use a preparation of antimony, which they apply both to the eyes and eyelids, and by which the eye itself acquires a wonderful lustre.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10with good works(which becometh women professing godliness) with good works - That is, it is not appropriate for women who profess to be the followers of the Saviour, to seek to be distinguished for personal, external decorations. If they are Christians, they have seen the vanity of these things, and have fixed the heart on more substantial realities. They are professed followers of Him “who went about doing good,” and the performance of good works…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-15Verses 8-15 Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys, and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath, or malice, or anger at any person. We must pray in faith, without doubting, and without disputing. Women who profess the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10The subject is still community prayer. women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty: Paul recommends Christian women must praise God rather than seek praise from people (compare 1 Peter 3:3–5). They should focus on doing good deeds for others, not on enhancing their appearance or being sexy. Gold, pearls, or expensive clothes suggest wealth (see 1 Timothy 6:5–10, 17–19). The reference to wealth might have been part of the power…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-109-10. The context requires that we understand these directions as to women, in relation to their deportment in public worship, though the rules will hold good on other occasions also. in modest apparel--"in seemly guise" [Ellicott]. The adjective means properly. orderly, decorous, becoming; the noun in secular writings means conduct, bearing. But here "apparel." Women are apt to love fine dress; and at Ephesus the riches of some (1Ti 6:17) would lead them…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Timothy 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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