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Selected Verse: 1 Timothy 2:10 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ti 2:10 |
King James |
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
professing--Greek, "promising": engaging to follow.
with good works--The Greek preposition is not the same as in Ti1 2:9; "by means of," or "through good works." Their adorning is to be effected by means of good works: not that they are to be clothed in, or with, them (Eph 2:10). Works, not words in public, is their province (Ti1 2:8, Ti1 2:11-12; Pe1 3:1). Works are often mentioned in the Pastoral Epistles in order to oppose the loose living, combined with the loose doctrine, of the false teachers. The discharge of everyday duties is honored with the designation, "good works." |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Professing (ἐπαγγελλομέναις)
In the sense of professing only in the Pastorals. In Tit 1:2, and everywhere else in N.T. it means promise. See Act 7:5; Rom 4:21; Gal 3:19, etc.
Godliness (θεοσεβείαν)
N.T.o. Several times in lxx. The adjective θεοσεβής worshipping God, Joh 9:31. It is = εὐσέβεια. See Ti1 2:2. Const. by good works with professing godliness: omit the parenthesis which - godliness; take which (ὅ) as = with that which (ἐν τούτῳ ὅ) and construe it with adorn. The whole will then read: "That women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (adorn themselves) with that which becometh women professing godliness through good works." |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| But (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. |
1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
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.
8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.
19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;