10 but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works.
And 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.
Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.
For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.
But she that lives in habits of self-indulgence is dead [while] living. And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable. But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of [his] house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever. Let a widow be put upon the list, being of not less than sixty years, [having been] wife of one man, borne witness to in good works, if she have brought up children, if she have exercised hospitality, if she have washed saints' feet, if she have imparted relief to the distressed, if she have diligently followed every good work.
The word [is] faithful, and I desire that thou insist strenuously on these things, that they who have believed God may take care to pay diligent attention to good works. These things are good and profitable to men.
having 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.
whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel; but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible [ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. For thus also the holy women who have hoped in God heretofore adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;
in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness, in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love: for these things existing and abounding in you make [you] to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ;
All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,
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Commentary on 1 Timothy 2 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 2
In this chapter Paul treats,
1Ti 2:1-8
Here is,
1Ti 2:9-15