Pray for All People

¹First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, ²vfor kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and wdignified in every way. ³This is good, and xit is pleasing in the sight of yGod our Savior, ⁴who desires zall people to be saved and ato come to bthe knowledge of the truth. ⁵For cthere is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man1 Christ Jesus, ⁶dwho gave himself as a ransom for all, which is ethe testimony given fat the proper time. ⁷gFor this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (hI am telling the truth, I am not lying), ia teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸I desire then that jin every place the men should pray, klifting lholy hands without anger or quarreling; ⁹likewise also mthat women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, ¹⁰nbut with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. ¹¹Let a woman learn quietly owith all submissiveness. ¹²pI do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. ¹³qFor Adam was formed first, rthen Eve; ¹⁴and Adam was not deceived, but sthe woman was deceived and became a transgressor. ¹⁵Yet she will be saved through tchildbearing—if they continue in ufaith and love and holiness, with self-control.