| 1 | I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men; |
| 2 | for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity; |
| 3 | for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God, |
| 4 | who desires that all men should be saved and come to [the] knowledge of [the] truth. |
| 5 | For God is one, and [the] mediator of God and men one, [the] man Christ Jesus, |
| 6 | who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony [to be rendered] in its own times; |
| 7 | to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak [the] truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of [the] nations in faith and truth. |
| 8 | I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning. |
| 9 | In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited [hair] and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, |
| 10 | but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works. |
| 11 | Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection; |
| 12 | but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness; |
| 13 | for Adam was formed first, then Eve: |
| 14 | and Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been deceived, was in transgression. |
| 15 | But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion. |