1 Timothy 2:9 (BSB)
Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
From 1 Timothy 2. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on 1 Timothy 2:9
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on 1 Timothy 2:1-15: CHAPTER 2 1 Timothy 2:1-4 1. I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 1. Adbortor igitur, ut ante omnia fiant deprecationes, obsecrationes, interpellationes, gratiarum actiones pro omnibus hominibus, 2. For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 2.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 1 Timothy 2:9-15: I. Here is a charge, that women who profess the Christian religion should be modest, sober, silent, and submissive, as becomes their place. 1. They must be very modest in their apparel, not affecting gaudiness, gaiety, or costliness (you may read the vanity of a person's mind in the gaiety and gaudiness of his habit), because they have better ornaments with which they should adorn themselves, with good works.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 1 Timothy 2:9: 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 internal religion only; nor the form of godliness, or the whole scheme of Gospel truth, which is according to godliness; nor only outward holiness of life and conversation; but the...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on 1 Timothy 2:9: Verse 9. In like manner also. That is, with the same propriety; with the same regard to what religion demands. The apostle had stated particularly the duty of men in public worship, , and he now proceeds to state the duty of women.