A Call to Prayer

1I exhort, therefore, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings to be made for all men, 2for kings and all those being in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3This† is good and acceptable before God our Savior, 4who wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

5For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6the One having given Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in their own proper times, 7in regard to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I speak the truth;† I do not lie—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 8Therefore I want the men in every place† to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

Instructions to Women

9Likewise also women are to adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and sound-mindedness, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, 10but with what is proper to women professing the fear of God through good works.

11Let a woman† learn in quietness, in all submission. 12But I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to use authority over a man,† but to be in quietness. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, has come into transgression. 15But she will be saved through childbearing, if they remain in faith and love and holiness, with sound-mindedness.

Footnotes:

3 BYZ and TR For this
7 BYZ and TR include in Christ.
8 Or in every place (of worship)
11 Or wife; also in verse 12
12 Or over her husband