1 Timothy 2:1-10 ▼

1 I exhort, therefore, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings to be made for all men,

2 for kings and all those being in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

3 This is good and acceptable before God our Savior,

4 who wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

6 the One having given Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in their own proper times,

7 in 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.

8 Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension.

9 Likewise 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,

10 but with what is proper to women professing the fear of God through good works.