1 Timothy 2:10 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹⁰ but, as is appropriate for women who profess to be religious, with good actions.

³⁶ Among the disciples at Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, which is in Greek Dorcas, that is, gazelle. She had devoted herself to doing good and to acts of charity.

³⁹ Peter went with them at once. When he arrived, they took him up to the room and all the widows stood around him crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made when she was still with them.

¹⁰ For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

⁶ A widow who gives herself up to pleasure is dead while she is still alive. ⁷ Insist upon these points, so that people may be irreproachable. ⁸ Whoever fails to provide for his own relatives, and particularly for members of his own family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. ⁹ No one under sixty years of age should be put on the list of widows. A widow must have been married but once, ¹⁰ and have a good reputation for Christian service, such as bringing up children, being hospitable to strangers, washing the feet of God's people, helping people in distress, or devoting herself to any form of doing good.

¹⁴ He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

⁸ This is a trustworthy teaching, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who believe in God may make it their business to do good. All this is right and beneficial to mankind.

¹² Live upright lives among the heathen, so that even if they charge you with being evil-doers, they may from observing the uprightness of your conduct come to praise God on the Day of Judgment.

³ You must not adopt the external attractions of arranging the hair and wearing jewelry and dress; ⁴ yours must be the inner beauty of character, the imperishable attraction of a quiet and gentle spirit, which has great value in the sight of God. ⁵ It was in that way in ancient times that those pious women who set their hopes on God made themselves attractive. They were submissive to their husbands,

⁶ knowledge with self-control, self-control with steadfastness, steadfastness with piety, ⁷ piety with a spirit of brotherhood, and the spirit of brotherhood with love. ⁸ For if you have these qualities in their fulness, they will make you neither idle nor unproductive when it comes to the understanding of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹ If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,

¹⁹ I know the things you do, your love and faithfulness and helpfulness and endurance, and I know that you are now doing more than you did at first.