1 Timothy 2:4-15 ▼

4 who is willing that all men should be saved, and 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 who gave himself a ransom for all, of which the testimony has been given in its proper times,

7 to give which testimony I have been appointed a preacher and an apostle; (I speak the truth, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faithfulness and in truth.

8 I will, therefore, that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and disputation.

9 In like manner, also, I will that the women adorn themselves with decorous dress, with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly raiment,

10 but with good works; since this becomes women who profess godliness.

11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

12 I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

14 And Adam was not deceived: but the woman being deceived, was in transgression;

15 but they shall be saved by the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sobriety.