| Chapter 2 |
1 | I exhort therefore, that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men;
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2 | For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
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3 | For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
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4 | Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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5 | For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
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6 | Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
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7 | For which I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
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8 | I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
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9 | In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in decent apparel, with modesty and sobriety; not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array,
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10 | But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
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11 | Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
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12 | But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
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13 | For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
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14 | And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
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15 | Notwithstanding, she will be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.
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