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1 Timothy 2:8–9

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I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
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From verse 8

  1. Psalms 134:2Rank 1 from verse 8
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    2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.

  2. Psalms 63:4Rank 2 from verse 8
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    4Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.

  3. Hebrews 10:22Rank 3 from verse 8
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    22Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

  4. Titus 3:8Rank 4 from verse 8
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    8This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

  5. James 4:8Rank 5 from verse 8
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    8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

From verse 9

  1. 1 Peter 3:3–5Rank 1 from verse 9
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    3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

    4But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

    5For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

  2. Titus 2:3–5Rank 2 from verse 9
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    3The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

    4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

  3. Jeremiah 4:30Rank 3 from verse 9
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    30And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

  4. Psalms 149:4Rank 4 from verse 9
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    4For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

  5. Isaiah 3:16Rank 5 from verse 9
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    16¶ Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

1 Timothy 2:8

COMBINED MEANING

pray

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Sense 1: To ask, beseech, request, or entreat. Sense 2: To make requests or supplications to God, or address him in worship.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

lifting

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of lift. Sense 1: To raise, bear up, or elevate physically. Sense 2: To direct upward or raise in expression, as the eyes, hands, voice, soul, prayer, or countenance. Sense 3: To exalt, restore, strengthen, or raise in condition or honour. Sense 4: To raise or wield against, as a hand, tool, weapon, or standard. Sense 5: In lift from off, to remove or take away.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

holy

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Sense 1: Morally pure, righteous, undefiled, and separate from evil; supremely so of God. Sense 2: Hallowed, consecrated, set apart, devoted, or belonging to God or sacred use; distinguished from what is common, profane, or unclean.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hands

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Sense 1: The end parts of the arms used for holding and working. Sense 2: Figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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without

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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

wrath

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Fierce anger, indignation, displeasure, rage, or the punitive judgment and destructive action that proceed from it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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doubting

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Present-participial or verbal-noun form of doubt, meaning to be uncertain, question, or waver in judgment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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1 Timothy 2:9

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

like

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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

adorn

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Sense 1: To clothe or decorate with ornaments. Sense 2: To display or commend the excellence of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

modest

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Orderly, decent, restrained, and free from shameful or ostentatious display.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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apparel

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Sense 1: Clothing or garments. Sense 2: As a verb, to clothe or adorn with garments.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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sobriety

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Soundness, self-control, modest restraint, temperance, seriousness, and disciplined judgment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hair

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A filament growing from the skin, or the collective covering formed by such filaments; sometimes something extremely fine or small.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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pearls

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Precious, rounded substances formed within shellfish and used as jewels.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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costly

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Of a high price; sumptuous; expensive; purchased at a great expense.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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array

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Sense 1: Orderly arrangement or rank, especially a battle formation. Sense 2: Clothing or apparel. Sense 3: As a verb, to arrange or set in order, especially for battle, or to clothe.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893

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2:1I EXHORT therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

2:2For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

2:3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

2:4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

2:5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

2:6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

2:7Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

2:8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

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2:9In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

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2:10But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

2:11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

2:12But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

2:13For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

2:14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

2:15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

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