1 Timothy 2:10

¹²having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation.

³Let your beauty come not from the outward adorning of braiding your hair, and of wearing gold ornaments or of putting on fine clothing, ⁴but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight. ⁵For this is how in the past the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

³⁶Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated means Dorcas.^[+] This woman was full of good works and acts of mercy which she did.

¹⁹“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

³¹Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

⁸This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you insist confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

⁶and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control, perseverance; and in perseverance, godliness; ⁷and in godliness, brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love. ⁸For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹¹Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,

³⁹Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the tunics and other garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.