Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness.
King James Version
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Holman Bible
but with good works,
International Standard Version
but through good actions. This is proper for women who claim to revere God.
A Conservative Version
but (which is fitting for women professing godliness) through good works.
American Standard Version
but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
Amplified
but instead adorned by good deeds [helping others], as is proper for women who profess to worship God.
An Understandable Version
but with good deeds, which are [more] appropriate for women who claim to be godly.
Anderson New Testament
but with good works; since this becomes women who profess godliness.
Bible in Basic English
But clothed with good works, as is right for women who are living in the fear of God.
Common New Testament
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess godliness.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but, as becomes women, who make a profession of religion, to be adorn'd with virtue.
Darby Translation
but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works.
Godbey New Testament
but whatsoever becomes women professing godliness, through good works.
Goodspeed New Testament
but, as is appropriate for women who profess to be religious, with good actions.
John Wesley New Testament
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
Julia Smith Translation
But (what become women professing religious worship) with good works.
King James 2000
But (as becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
Lexham Expanded Bible
but with good deeds which are fitting for women who profess godliness.
Modern King James verseion
but with good works, which becomes women professing godliness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
but with such as becometh women that profess the worshipping of God through good works.
Moffatt New Testament
but with good deeds (as befits women who make a religious profession).
Montgomery New Testament
but (as becomes women proclaiming godliness) with the ornament of good deeds.
NET Bible
but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God.
New Heart English Bible
but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
Noyes New Testament
but, as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
Sawyer New Testament
but with good works, which become women professing godliness.
The Emphasized Bible
But, which becometh women promising godliness, through means of good works.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
but as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
Twentieth Century New Testament
but--as is proper for women who profess to be religious--with good actions.
Webster
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.
Williams New Testament
but with good deeds; for this is appropriate for women who profess to be pious.
World English Bible
but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
Worrell New Testament
but (which becomes women professing godliness) through good works.
Worsley New Testament
but in good works, as becometh women professing godliness.
Youngs Literal Translation
but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.
Themes
Dress » Rules with respect to women's
Wives » Should be adorned » With good works
crowning qualities of Womanhood » Modesty
Women » Ministry of » Modesty of
Women » Rules for dress of Christian
Topics
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Timothy 2:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instructions For Women
9 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, 10 but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women making a claim to godliness. 11 Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
Cross References
Acts 9:36
Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.
Proverbs 31:31
Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
Acts 9:39
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.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
1 Timothy 5:6-10
but she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
Titus 2:14
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.
Titus 3:8
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.
1 Peter 2:12
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.
1 Peter 3:3-5
Do not let your adorning be external--the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear--
2 Peter 1:6-8
and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
2 Peter 3:11
Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
Revelation 2:19
"'I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.