1 Timothy 2:10 (WEB)
but with good works, which is appropriate for women professing godliness.
Fathers and councils · 8
John Chrysostom
“These things I say, desiring that you should be adorned with that wholesome adornment which Paul enjoined; “Not with gold, or pearls, or costly array; but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.” ( 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Cease not to adorn yourself with good works—the true bracelets of a Christian woman.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 10.
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Tertullian
“So far, however, as regards the dress of women, the variety of observance compels us—men of no consideration whatever—to treat, presumptuously indeed, after the most holy apostle, except in so far as it will not be presumptuously if we treat the subject in accordance with the apostle.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. xi. 1–16; 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.
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Cyprian of Carthage
““Let women,” said he, “adorn themselves with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly array, but as becometh women professing chastity, with a good conversation.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“Also to Timothy: “Let your women be such as adorn themselves with shamefacedness and modesty, not with twisted hair, nor with gold, nor with pearls, or precious garments, but as becometh women professing chastity, with a good conversation.”” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.
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Ambrose of Milan
“It befits also a woman to pray in an orderly dress, but it especially beseems her to pray covered, and to pray giving promise of purity together with a good conversation.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…the very obedience of married life, hath no thought save how to please God, by adorning herself, not with plaited hair, or gold and pearls and costly attire, but as becometh women making profession of piety, through a good conversation.” — editor's note: 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10
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Clement of Alexandria
“Most admirably, therefore, the blessed Peter says, “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves not with braids, or gold, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”” — editor's note: By mistake for Paul. Clement quotes here, as often, from memory (1 Tim. ii. 9, 10).
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.37 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 14.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.37.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.37.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.37.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.37.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.37.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.37.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.45.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.45.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.45.
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy I.45.
Cited together in Letters Letter 31.