The highest beauty of women, and the richest ornaments with which they can adorn themselves, are true piety and sincere active beneficence. The gospel inculcates universal propriety, and a character formed after its model is one of consummate excellence, usefulness, and enjoyment.
Verse 10. _BUT (WHICH BECOMETH, C._] That is: _Good works_ are the only _ornaments_ with which women professing _Christianity_ should seek to be adorned. The Jewish matrons were accustomed to cry to...
with good works}BUT (WHICH BECOMETH WOMEN PROFESSING GODLINESS) WITH GOOD WORKS - That is, it is not appropriate for women who profess to be the followers of the Saviour, to seek to be distinguished...
II. CONCERNING PRAYER CHAPTER 2 __ 1. Prayer for all men and for those in authority (1 Timothy 2:1) 2. The place for the man and the woman (1 Timothy 2:8) 1 Timothy 2:1 Instructions ar
THE BEHAVIOUR OF WOMEN. Public prayer, characterised by the right spirit, must be offered only by _men._ Women's part is to dress modestly, finding their chief adornment in good works. They may neithe...
THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE GOSPEL (1 Timothy 2:1-7)...
So, then, it is my wish that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, with no anger in their hearts and no doubts in their minds. Even so it is my wish that women should modestly and wisely...
GODLINESS. Greek. _theosebeia_. Only here. WITH. App-104. 1 Timothy 2:1,...
_which becometh women professing godliness_ Best as A.V. and R.V. forming a parenthesis to justify the boldness of the dress recommended immediately after. _godliness_ The noun occurs only here, the a...
ii. FURTHER DIRECTIONS AS TO THE DEMEANOUR AT PUBLIC WORSHIP OF (_a_) MEN, (_b_) WOMEN...
(_b_) THE CONDUCT OF WOMEN IN THE CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY...
The adornment is to be διʼ ἔργων�. This is certainly the true construction; ὅ πρέπει … θεοσέβειαν is parenthetical. The stress laid on ‘good works’ all through the Pastoral Epistles is very remarkable...
ΠΡΈΠΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΈΠΩ (G4241) быть очевидным, казаться, подходить или соответствовать (AS), ΈΠΑΓΓΕΛΛΟΜΈΝΑΙΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΈΠΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ (G1861) объявлять, провозглашать, прор...
IN LIKE MANNER ALSO,— Dr. Heylin reads the verses thus: _And also that the women_ [_in your assemblies_] _be dressed decently, adorning themselves with bashfulness and sobriety; not with broidered hai...
8 I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing. 9 In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobri...
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. PROFESSING, [ epangellomenais (G1861)] - promising; engaging to follow. WITH [ dia (G1223 ): THROUGH] GOOD WORKS. Their adorning i...
3 Translators have experienced much difficulty with this opening sentence, because it seemed to lack the principal verb. The A V adds _ so do_, the Revisers _ so do I now_. It is very seldom that any...
5 This passage is primarily intended to break down the bounds in which salvation had hitherto been confined. The testimony of past eras is no basis on which to build in this era. The testimony to the...
THE THIRD CHARGE TO TIMOTHY, as to the comely behaviour of women, and their place in the Church. 9, 10. IN LIKE MANNER] rather, 'so also'; there is no likeness in the conduct enjoined on women to what...
CONCERNING PRAYER, THANKSGIVING, AND THE PLACE OF WOMEN 1-8. The second charge to Timothy—to teach those over whom he was set to use public prayer and intercession....
HOW TO BE A LEADER IN THE CHURCH 1 TIMOTHY _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 PRAYER FOR ALL PEOPLE (2:1-4) V1 First of all, I urge you to pray for all people. Talk to God about them. Ask God to help and...
BUT (WHICH BECOMETH WOMEN PROFESSING GODLINESS) WITH GOOD WORKS. — That is to say, “Let them adorn themselves in that which is befitting women who profess godliness — viz., in good works.” The Apostle...
CHAPTER 9 BEHAVIOUR IN CHRISTIAN WORSHIP: MEN'S ATTITUDE OF BODY AND MIND: WOMEN'S ATTIRE AND ORNAMENT. - 1 Timothy 2:8 IN the preceding verses of this chapter, St. Paul has been insisting on the dut...
ἀλλʼ ὃ πρέπει : It has been assumed above that διʼ ἔργων ἀγαθῶν is to be connected with κοσμεῖν. In this case ὃ πρέπει θεοσέβειαν is a parenthetical clause in apposition to the sentence. It is, howeve...
_to 1 Timothy 3:1_ _a_. The ministers of public prayer must be the men of the congregation, not the women. A woman's positive duty is to make herself conspicuous by good works, not by personal display...
PRAYER AND MODEST ADORNING 1 Timothy 2:1 The Apostle especially urged intercessory prayer, because it meant so much to himself. Three different words are used of prayer, because there are so many way...
The apostle then turned to the public devotions of the Church. As the Church is the medium for proclamation of the doctrine of truth, so also is it the instrument of intercession as between men and Go...
INSTRUCTIONS FOR MEN AND WOMEN CONCERNING WORSHIP The words "I desire" suggest a strong desire that directs the actions of others. The word used for "men" here indicates the male of the species in dir...
(8) I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. (9) В¶ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sob...
1 Timothy 1:1-20. We enter now on the confidential communications of the apostle to some of his fellow-labourers, and tonight on the epistles to Timothy. The two have much in common, but they have als...
10_Which becometh women_; for undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet. What he has laid down are marks of distinction; and if piety must be testified by...
The apostle proceeds to give instructions founded on the great principles which he had established on grace. The Jewish spirit might look on Gentile kings as enemies, and on Gentiles in general as unw...
BUT (WHICH BECOMETH WOMEN PROFESSING GOD LIKENESS),.... By which is meant not any particular grace, was it, the fear of God might be designed, and so the Syriac version renders it; nor the whole of in...
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. Ver. 10. _But which becometh_] Our common conversation should be as becometh the gospel of Christ, πολιτευεσθε, Philippians 1:27. And...
_In like manner also_, I command _that women_ Particularly when they are about to appear in public assemblies for divine worship; _adorn themselves in modest_ Κοσμιω, _decent_, or _becoming, apparel_...
BUT (WHICH BECOMETH WOMEN PROFESSING GODLINESS) WITH GOOD WORKS....
THE STATION AND CALLING OF CHRISTIAN WOMEN....
We have seen in chapter 1 that the grace of God must predominate as the one principle of true blessing, and the one corrective when falsehood threatens. Chapter 2 now calls for an attitude consistent...
But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. 1. Professing - What does this word mean? Can we profess something that is not true? Is profession an oral statement we make? Can we p...
“BUT”: In contrast to the temptation to place all the emphasis on the outward man. 1 TIMOTHY 2:10 “BY MEANS OF GOOD WORKS”: “Rather than depending on what she herself simply puts on the outside, the u...
8-15 Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray every where. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray wh...
They ought to look at the ornament of good works; for those are the ornaments which best become women professing godliness, whose hearts should despise the ornament of the figure of excrementitious ha...
1 Timothy 2:10 but G235 which G3739 proper G4241 (G5719) women G1135 professing G1861 (G5740) godliness G2317 wit
1 Timothy 2:10. BECOMETH. The same reference to a standard of decorum at once conventional and real, as in 1 Corinthians 11:13. PROFESSING GODLINESS. The usual meaning of the verb is simply ‘promise;...
BECOMETH (πρεπε). Old word for seemly. Paul wishes women to wear "becoming" clothes, but θεοσεβειαν (godliness, from θεοσεβης, John 9:31, θεοσ, σεβομα, worship) is part of the "style" desired. Only...
CONTENTS: Exhortation to prayer. Divine order for the sexes. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Adam, Eve, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Christians are to be men much given to prayer, and in their prayers having...
1 Timothy 2:1. _I exhort therefore, that supplications and prayers be made for all men for kings, and all that are in authority._ Civil government is in its own nature paternal: it is designed to prot...
BUT WITH GOOD DEEDS. _Ellicott_ takes this as _adding good deeds._ I do not understand Paul to specifically forbid women to braid their hair, etc., but to forbid them to _show off in_ their use of suc...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 2:8 NOT WITH... GOLD OR PEARLS OR COSTLY ATTIRE. Paul does not prohibit wearing jewelry (see note on 1 Pet. 3:3–4). Rather, he says that women should not dress to show off...
1 TIMOTHY—NOTE ON 1 TIMOTHY 2:1 Descriptions of Gospel-shaped Living. Paul now shows what true gospel living (1 Timothy 1:5) should look like. He asks for prayer, and
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ 1 Timothy 2:9. THAT WOMEN ADORN THEMSELVES IN MODEST APPAREL.—“In seemly guise.” The word for “apparel” includes more than dress—taking in the whole deportment, whethe...
EXPOSITION 1 TIMOTHY 2:1 _First of all_,_ that _for _that_,_ first of all_,_ _A.V.; _thanksgivings _for _and giving of thanks_._ _A.V. I EXHORT THEREFORE. The insertion of the connecting particle "th...
Now I exhort [Paul said] therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and the giving of thanks, be made for all men (1 Timothy 2:1); So we are exhorted to pray for each other...
1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 3:3; 1 Timothy 5:6; 2 Peter 1:6; 2 Peter 3:11;...
Professing [ε π α γ γ ε λ λ ο μ ε ν α ι ς]. In the sense of professing only in the Pastorals. In Titus 1:2, and everywhere else in N. T. it means promise. See Acts 7:5; Romans 4:21;...