1 Timothy 2:8-10 - 1599 Geneva Bible
8 I will therefore that the men pray, everywhere lifting up pure hands without wrath, or doubting.9 Likewise also the women, that they array themselves in comely apparel, with shamefastness and modesty, not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly apparel,
10 But (as becometh women that profess the fear of God) with good works.
Father God, help me to read your word today. Teach me with your wisdom for I am just a man that sometimes struggles to understand it. - Amen
Brethren:
The Apostle Paul doth list and express the proper means of prayer to wit:
Without anger, without doubt, and with love and charity.
God honors sincere prayer. He also sayest that women do not teach but listen in silence and subjugation to the man. With this, I would like to agree, and for the most part do agree. However, today's world has men abandoning their positions of authority, and have prompted women to take a dominant role in the church. I would wish that men would return to their first love and become more active again in the Christian church and family. Yet, this does not negate that women should neglect their own salvation, and allows them to teach the children so that they might stay on the path. (See Epehesains 5:25; Colossians 3:19)
R.P. Woitowitz
“Under the gospel, prayer is not to be confined to any one particular house of prayer, but men must pray everywhere. We must pray in our closets, pray in our families, pray at our meals, pray when we are on journeys and pray in the solemn assemblies, whether more public or private. We must pray in charity; without wrath or malice or anger at any person. We must pray in faith, without doubting and without disputing. Good works are the best ornament this are in the site of God, of great price. Good women may and ought to tech their children at home, the principles of true [faith] and religion.”
Matthew Henry
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