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

having a good reputation for good works; if she has borne children, if she has entertained strangers, if she has washed the saints feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work.

For those who render good service win a good standing for themselves in their faith in Christ Jesus.

Keep up the good fight for the faith. Keep your hold on eternal life, to which God called you, when before many witnesses you made the good profession of faith.

charge them to continue doing good and being rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous hearted,

Laying these things down to the brothers, thou will be a good helper of Jesus Christ, reared up in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine that thou have followed.

In the same way, the good deeds [of people] are [also] evident, and even those [deeds] which are not [good] cannot be hidden.

keeping hold of faith and a good conscience. Certain individuals have scouted the good conscience and thus come to grief over their faith ??20 including Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have made over to Satan. That will teach them to stop their blasphemous ongoings!

Those who have Christian masters should not think less of them because they are their Brothers, but on the contrary they should serve them all the better, because those who are to benefit by their good work are dear to them as their fellow Christians. Those are the things to insist upon in your teaching.

But the aim of your instruction is to be love that flows out of a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.

as measured by the glorious good news of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

This is the instruction which I entrust to you, my son Timothy, which is in accordance with the prophetic utterances formerly made about you, that you may, aided by them, continue to fight the good fight,

But women will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to live in faith, love, and purity, blended with good sense.

He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, or else he may incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap.

For everything in God's creation is good, and nothing is to be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving;