1Timothy - Chapter 2 | English Standard Version

  • 1. First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
  • 2. for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
  • 3. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,
  • 4. who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
  • 5. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
  • 6. who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.
  • 7. For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
  • 8. I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;
  • 9. likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,
  • 10. but with what is proper for women who profess godliness--with good works.
  • 11. Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.
  • 12. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
  • 13. For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
  • 14. and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
  • 15. Yet she will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
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