Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.
1 Timothy 2:10 - Revised Standard Version but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion. 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 at Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
So Peter rose and went with them. And when he had come, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood beside him weeping, and showing tunics and other garments which 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.
also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire
who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.
The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men.
Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in case they speak against you as wrongdoers, 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 persons 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.