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Christian Standard Bible ®

1 Timothy 2:10

but with good works, as is proper for women who affirm that they worship God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Dress;   Minister, Christian;   Righteousness;   Women;   Works;   Thompson Chain Reference - Modesty;   Virtues;   Womanhood, Crowning Qualities of;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wives;   Works, Good;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Ornaments;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beauty;   Genesis, Theology of;   Timothy, First and Second, Theology of;   Wealth;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Christianity;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Jewels, Jewelry;   Religion;   Woman;   Works;   1 Timothy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Prayer;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adorning;   Brotherly Love;   Godliness;   Goodness (Human);   Profession;   Profession (2);   Salutations;   Soberness Sobriety;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Godliness;   Piety;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Become;   Ornament;   Profess;  

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
Legacy Standard Bible
but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women professing godliness.
Simplified Cowboy Version
They should clothe themselves in devotion to God by riding for his brand every day. This is where true beauty comes from.
Bible in Basic English
But clothed with good works, as is right for women who are living in the fear of God.
Darby Translation
but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works.
World English Bible
but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Weymouth's New Testament
but--as befits women making a claim to godliness--with the ornament of good works.
King James Version (1611)
But (which becommeth women professing godlines) with good works.
Literal Translation
but what becomes women professing fear of God, through good works.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
but with soch as it becommeth weme that professe godlynes thorow good workes.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but, as becomes women, who make a profession of religion, to be adorn'd with virtue.
Amplified Bible
but instead adorned by good deeds [helping others], as is proper for women who profess to worship God.
American Standard Version
but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
Revised Standard Version
but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
but with suche as becometh wemen that professe the worshippynge of God thorow good workes.
Update Bible Version
but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works.
Webster's Bible Translation
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Young's Literal Translation
but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.
New Century Version
Instead, they should do good deeds, which is right for women who say they worship God.
New English Translation
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.
Berean Standard Bible
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.
Contemporary English Version
Women who claim to love God should do helpful things for others,
Complete Jewish Bible
Rather, they should adorn themselves with what is appropriate for women who claim to be worshipping God, namely, good deeds.
English Standard Version
but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But (as becommeth women that professe the feare of God) with good workes.
George Lamsa Translation
But let them be engaged in good works, as is becoming women who profess fear of God.
Hebrew Names Version
but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works.
International Standard Version
but through good works. This is proper for women who claim to have reverence for God.1 Peter 3:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
but with good works, as becometh women who profess the fear of Aloha.
Murdock Translation
but with good works, as becometh women who profess reverence for God.
New King James Version
but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.
New Living Translation
For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.
New Life Bible
Instead of these things, Christian women should be known for doing good things and living good lives.
English Revised Version
but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
New Revised Standard
but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, which becometh women promising godliness, through means of good works.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
King James Version
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Lexham English Bible
but with good deeds which are fitting for women who profess godliness.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But (that becommeth women professyng godlynesse) through good workes.
Easy-to-Read Version
But they should make themselves attractive by the good things they do. That is more appropriate for women who say they are devoted to God.
New American Standard Bible
but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
Good News Translation
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who claim to be religious.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
biheetinge pite bi good werkis.

Contextual Overview

9 Also, the women are to dress themselves in modest clothing, with decency and good sense, not with elaborate hairstyles, gold, pearls, or expensive apparel, 10 but with good works, as is proper for women who affirm that they worship God. 11 A woman should learn in silence with full submission. 12 I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; instead, she is to be silent. 13 For Adam was created first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and transgressed. 15 But she will be saved through childbearing, if she continues in faith, love, and holiness, with good judgment.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

women: 1 Peter 3:3-5, 2 Peter 3:11

with: 1 Timothy 5:6-10, Proverbs 31:31, Acts 9:36, Acts 9:39, Ephesians 2:10, Titus 2:14, Titus 3:8, 1 Peter 2:12, 2 Peter 1:6-8, Revelation 2:19

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:22 - took Genesis 24:44 - Both Exodus 28:40 - glory Ruth 3:3 - put thy 2 Samuel 1:24 - General 2 Kings 9:30 - tired Proverbs 1:9 - they Proverbs 4:9 - give Proverbs 31:25 - Strength Isaiah 3:21 - nose jewels Matthew 5:16 - that Matthew 6:29 - even Romans 16:2 - as Ephesians 5:3 - as 1 Timothy 4:7 - exercise 1 Timothy 5:10 - good Titus 2:3 - as 1 Peter 3:5 - the holy

Cross-References

Psalms 46:4
There is a river— its streams delight the city of God, the holy dwelling place of the Most High.
Revelation 22:1
Then he showed me the river of living water, sparkling like crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But (which becometh women professing god likeness),.... By which is meant not any particular grace, was it, the fear of God might be designed, and so the Syriac version renders it; nor the whole of internal religion only; nor the form of godliness, or the whole scheme of Gospel truth, which is according to godliness; nor only outward holiness of life and conversation; but the whole of all this, all religion, internal and external, the whole of godliness, both in a doctrinal and in a practical way. All this, these women the apostle gives directions unto, had made a profession of, and had been baptized upon it, and received members of churches; and as yet held their profession: and such persons, it best became them not so much to adorn themselves with any outward adornings, as

with good works; such as are mentioned in 1 Thessalonians 5:10 Good works are like good clothes, to which the apostle alludes; they do not make persons men and women, but they adorn them as such; so good works, they do not make men and women Christians, or believers, but they adorn them as such; they are ornaments to their persons, and to their profession, and to the Gospel they profess. See Titus 2:10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

with good works}But (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 especially becomes them. They profess to have fixed the affections on God their Saviour, and to be living for heaven; and it is not becoming in them to seek such ornaments as would indicate that the heart is supremely attached to worldly things. There is great beauty in this direction. Good works, or deeds of benevolence, eminently become a Christian female. The nature of woman seems to be adapted to the performance of all deeds demanding kindness, tenderness, and gentleness of feeling; of all that proceeds from pity, sympathy, and affection; and we feel instinctively that while acts of hardy enterprise and daring in a good cause especially become a Christian man, there is something exquisitely appropriate to the female character in deeds of humble and unobtrusive sympathy and benevolence. God seems to have formed her mind for just such things, and in such things it occupies its appropriate sphere rather than in seeking external adorning.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 10. But (which becometh, c. — 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.


 
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