• 1. I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:
  • 2. for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,
  • 3. for this `is' right and acceptable before God our Saviour,
  • 4. who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;
  • 5. for one `is' God, one also `is' mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
  • 6. who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --
  • 7. in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
  • 8. I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;
  • 9. in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,
  • 10. but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.
  • 11. Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
  • 12. and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,
  • 13. for Adam was first formed, then Eve,
  • 14. and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,
  • 15. and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.