Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
1 Timothy 2:10 - English Standard Version 2016 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But by doing good deeds (deeds in themselves good and for the good and advantage of those contacted by them), as befits women who profess reverential fear for and devotion to God. American Standard Version (1901) but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works. Common English Bible They should make themselves attractive by doing good, which is appropriate for women who claim to honor God. Catholic Public Domain Version but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works. |
Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
So Peter rose and went with them. And when he arrived, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping and showing tunics and other garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.