likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,
Paul makes this command to meet a perverse objection: some think we need only pray for believers and the Church, and why concern ourselves with strangers? He cuts through that reasoning and orders us to pray for all men without exception, not limiting our prayers to the body of the Church alone.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 2:1-15
Good works are the best ornament a Christian woman can wear; they hold great price before God, far more than fine clothes. She must learn Scripture and the principles of godliness, not imagine her sex excuses her from the learning necessary to salvation, and remain silent and submissive, as her creation and transgression both declare.
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Commenting on 1 Timothy 2:9-15
Good works are the true ornament for a woman who professes godliness, not braided hair or gold. They adorn a person as such, just as garments clothe the body; they make no one a Christian, but they grace those who are.
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