Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
but--as is proper for women who profess to be religious--with good actions.
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.
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
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Timothy 2:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Instructions For Women
9 I also desire that women should adorn themselves with appropriate dress, worn quietly and modestly, and not with wreaths or gold ornaments for the hair, or pearls, or costly clothing, 10 but--as is proper for women who profess to be religious--with good actions. 11 A woman should listen silently to her teachers, and show them all deference.
Cross References
Acts 9:36
At Jaffa there lived a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which is in Greek 'Dorcas'--a Gazelle. Her life was spent in doing kind and charitable actions.
Acts 9:39
Peter returned with them at once. On his arrival, he was taken upstairs, and all the widows came round him in tears, showing the coats and other clothing which Dorcas had made while she was among them.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God's handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.
1 Timothy 5:6-10
But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death.
Titus 2:14
For he gave himself on our behalf, to deliver us from all wickedness, and to purify for himself a People who should be peculiarly his own and eager to do good.
Titus 3:8
How true that saying is! And it is on these subjects that I desire you to lay especial stress, so that those who have learned to trust in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing good. Such subjects are excellent in themselves, and of real use to mankind.
1 Peter 2:12
Let your daily life among the Gentiles be so upright, that, whenever they malign you as evil-doers, they may learn, as they watch, from the uprightness of your conduct, to praise God 'at the time when he shall visit them.'
1 Peter 3:3-5
Yours should be, not the external adornment of the arrangement of the hair, the wearing of jewelry, or the putting on of dresses,
2 Peter 1:6-8
knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,
2 Peter 3:11
Now, since all these things are in the process of dissolution, think what you yourselves ought to be--what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,
Revelation 2:19
I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first.