| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1First of all, then, I urge you to offer to God petitions, prayers, intercessions, and expressions of thanks for all people, | 1First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, |
| 2for kings, and for everyone who has authority, so that we might lead a quiet and peaceful life with all godliness and dignity. | 2for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. |
| 3This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, | 3This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, |
| 4who wants all people to be saved and to come to know the truth fully. | 4who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. |
| 5There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings—a human, the Messiah Jesus. | 5For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, |
| 6He gave himself as a ransom for everyone, the testimony at the proper time. | 6who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. |
| 7For this reason I was appointed to be an announcer, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the gentiles. (I am telling you the truth. I am not lying.) | 7For 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. |
| 8Therefore, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative. | 8I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; |
| 9Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not with elaborate hairstyles or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, | 9likewise 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, |
| 10but through good actions. This is proper for women who claim to revere God. | 10but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. |
| 11Let a woman learn with a quiet spirit, and submissively. | 11Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. |
| 12Moreover, in the area of teaching, I am not allowing a woman to instigate conflict toward a man. Instead, she is to remain calm. | 12I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. |
| 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve, | 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve; |
| 14and it was not Adam who was deceived. It was the woman who was deceived and became disobedient, | 14and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. |
| 15even though she will be saved through the birth of the Child, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment. | 15Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control. |
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