1 Timothy 2:1-4 ▼

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 we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all piety and gravity,

3 for this [is] right and acceptable before God our Savior,

4 who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;