• Exhortation to Prayer

  • 1 First of all, then, I exhort that petitions and prayers, requests and thanksgivings, be made for all men,
  • 2 for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
  • 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
  • 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.
  • 5 For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
  • 6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the witness for this proper time.
  • 7 For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 8 Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

  • Instructions for Women

  • 9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with proper clothing, with modesty and self-restraint, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly clothing,
  • 10 but rather by means of good works, as is proper for women professing godliness.
  • 11 A woman must learn in quietness, in all submission.
  • 12 But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.
  • 13 For it was Adam who was first formed, and then Eve.
  • 14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into trespass.
  • 15 But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with self-restraint.