1 Timothy 2:10
New International Version
but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.

New Living Translation
For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.

English Standard Version
but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

Berean Standard Bible
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

Berean Literal Bible
but with what is becoming to women, professing the fear of God through good works.

King James Bible
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

New King James Version
but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works.

New American Standard Bible
but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

NASB 1995
but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.

NASB 1977
but rather by means of good works, as befits women making a claim to godliness.

Legacy Standard Bible
but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women professing godliness.

Amplified Bible
but instead adorned by good deeds [helping others], as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

Christian Standard Bible
but with good works, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

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

American Standard Version
but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But with good works, just as it is suitable for women who profess the worship of God.

Contemporary English Version
Women who claim to love God should do helpful things for others,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

English Revised Version
but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
This is what is proper for women who claim to have reverence for God.

Good News Translation
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who claim to be religious.

International Standard Version
but through good actions. This is proper for women who claim to revere God.

Literal Standard Version
but—which becomes women professing godly piety—through good works.

Majority Standard Bible
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

New American Bible
but rather, as befits women who profess reverence for God, with good deeds.

NET Bible
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

New Revised Standard Version
but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.

New Heart English Bible
but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.

Webster's Bible Translation
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

Weymouth New Testament
but--as befits women making a claim to godliness--with the ornament of good works.

World English Bible
but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.

Young's Literal Translation
but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.

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Context
Instructions to Women
9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God. 11A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.…

Cross References
Proverbs 31:25
Strength and honor are her clothing, and she can laugh at the days to come.

1 Timothy 2:9
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

1 Timothy 2:11
A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.


Treasury of Scripture

But (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.

women.

1 Peter 3:3-5
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; …

2 Peter 3:11
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

with.

1 Timothy 5:6-10
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth…

Proverbs 31:31
Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

Acts 9:36,39
Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did…

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1 Timothy 2
1. Instruction to pray and give thanks.
9. How women should be attired.
12. They are not permitted to teach.
15. They shall be saved if they continue in faith.














(10) But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.--That is to say, "Let them adorn themselves in that which is befitting women who profess godliness--viz., in good works." The Apostle, still speaking of women's true part in public divine service--urges that their works should be in accord with their words of prayer--tells them that a woman's truest and most beautiful ornament consisted in those tender works of mercy and pity--her peculiar province--in other words, that they, like Dorcas of Joppa, whose praise is in the Book of Life, "should be full of good works and alms deeds" (Acts 9:36).

Verse 10. - Through for with, A.V. (The change from "with" to "through" is quite unnecessary, though more strictly accurate. "With" does equally well for ἐν and διά, the one applied to the ornaments and dress in or with which the woman adorns herself, the other to the good works by which she is adorned.) Professing godliness. In all ether passages in the New Testament where it occurs, ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι means "to promise," except in 1 Timothy 6:21, where, as here, it means "to profess," as it frequently does in classical Greek: Απαγγέλλεσθαι ἀρετήν σοφίαν, etc. Θεοσεβεία only occurs here in the New Testament; but it is used in the LXX. in Job 28:28; Genesis 20:11; also in Xenophon. In John 9:31 we have Θεοσεβής, "a worshipper of God." Through good works. Compare the description of Dorcas (Acts 9:36, 39). Ἔργα ἀγαθά mean especially acts of charity (comp. 1 Timothy 5:10; 2 Corinthians 9:8, 9; Colossians 1:11; elsewhere it is us, d more generally, like ἔργα καλά, though this phrase also sometimes points especially to acts of charity, as in 1 Timothy 5:10; 1 Timothy 6:18; Titus 3:14; Hebrews 10:24).

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Greek
but
ἀλλ’ (all’)
Conjunction
Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise.

with
δι’ (di’)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

good
ἀγαθῶν (agathōn)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 18: A primary word; 'good'.

deeds,
ἔργων (ergōn)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 2041: From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.

[as]
(ho)
Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3739: Who, which, what, that.

is proper
πρέπει (prepei)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4241: It becomes, is fitting to, is right. Apparently a primary verb; to tower up, i.e. to be suitable or proper.

for women [who]
γυναιξὶν (gynaixin)
Noun - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1135: A woman, wife, my lady. Probably from the base of ginomai; a woman; specially, a wife.

profess
ἐπαγγελλομέναις (epangellomenais)
Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Dative Feminine Plural
Strong's 1861: From epi and the base of aggelos; to announce upon, i.e. to engage to do something, to assert something respecting oneself.

to worship God.
θεοσέβειαν (theosebeian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2317: Reverence for God, fear of God, godliness, piety. From theosebes; devoutness, i.e. Piety.


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