1Ti 2:10. Ἐπαγγελλομέναις) promising (engaging to follow), professing. The same word is at ch. 1Ti 6:21.-διʼ ἔργων, with works) construed with adorn; with works, without speaking, which is competent for (the province belonging to) men, 1Ti 2:8; 1Ti 2:11-12; 1Pe 3:1. There is a very frequent mention of works in the epistles to Timothy and Titus, and those are adorned with the appellation of good works, which come to be performed in the ordinary affairs of human life.