Verse 10

but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.

Referenced Verses

  • Acts 9:36 : 36 And in Joppa there was a certain female disciple, by name Tabitha, (which interpreted, is called Dorcas,) this woman was full of good works and kind acts that she was doing;
  • Acts 9:39 : 39 And Peter having risen, went with them, whom having come, they brought into the upper chamber, and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing coats and garments, as many as Dorcas was making while she was with them.
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.
  • 1 Tim 5:6-9 : 6 and she who is given to luxury, living -- hath died; 7 and these things charge, that they may be blameless; 8 and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse. 9 A widow -- let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband, 10 in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
  • Titus 3:8 : 8 Stedfast `is' the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,
  • 1 Pet 2:12 : 12 having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
  • 1 Pet 3:3-5 : 3 whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments, 4 but -- the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible thing of the meek and quiet spirit, which is, before God, of great price, 5 for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,
  • 2 Pet 1:6-8 : 6 and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love; 8 for these things being to you and abounding, do make `you' neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,
  • 2 Pet 3:11 : 11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?
  • Rev 2:19 : 19 I have known thy works, and love, and ministration, and faith, and thy endurance, and thy works -- and the last `are' more than the first.
  • Prov 31:31 : 31 Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!