Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
for good works—Greek, "IN honourable (excellent) works"; the sphere or element in which the good report of her had place (Titus 2:7). This answers to I Timothy 3:7, as to the bishop or presbyter, "He must have a good report of them which are without."
if—if, in addition to being "well reported of."
she . . . brought up children—either her own (I Timothy 3:4, I Timothy 3:12), or those of others, which is one of the "good works"; a qualification adapting her for ministry to orphan children, and to mothers of families.
lodged strangers— I Timothy 3:2, "given to hospitality" (Titus 1:8); in the case of presbyters.
washed . . . saints' feet—after the example of the Lord (John 13:14); a specimen of the universal spirit of humbly "by love serving one another," which actuated the early Christians.
relieved the afflicted—whether by pecuniary or other relief.
followed . . . good— (I Thessalonians 5:15; compare instances in Matthew 25:35-36).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Timothy 5:10:
1 Timothy 5:9
1 Timothy 5:14
1 Timothy 5:16
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