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First, I Urge That Prayers And Thanksgivings Be Made For All People

First of all then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all the ones being in a place of superiority, in order that we may spend[a] a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This[b] is good and acceptable[c] in the sight of our Savior God, Who desires[d] all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

For Jesus Gave Himself As a Ransom For All

For there is one God, and one mediator of God and people— the man Christ Jesus, the One having given Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given in His[e] own times for which I was appointed a proclaimer and an apostle (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in[f] faith and truth. So I want the men in every place to be praying, lifting-up holy hands without anger and argument.

Women’s Appearance And Behavior Should Be Fitting For Ones Professing Godliness

Similarly also, I urge that women be adorning themselves in well-ordered[g] apparel with modesty and sound-mindedness[h]— not in braided hair and gold or pearls or very-expensive clothing, 10 but through[i] good works, which is fitting for women professing godliness[j]. 11 Let a woman be learning in quietness with all submission. 12 And I do not permit a woman to teach nor have-authority-over[k] a man, but to be in quietness. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived[l], but the woman, having been completely-deceived, has come-to-be in transgression. 15 But she[m] will be saved by[n] The Childbearing, if they[o] continue in faith and love and holiness with sound-mindedness.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 2:2 Or, lead, pass, live.
  2. 1 Timothy 2:3 That is, such prayer.
  3. 1 Timothy 2:3 Or, pleasing.
  4. 1 Timothy 2:4 Or, wants, wishes.
  5. 1 Timothy 2:6 Or, its.
  6. 1 Timothy 2:7 That is, in connection with.
  7. 1 Timothy 2:9 Or, respectable, modest, appropriate.
  8. 1 Timothy 2:9 Or, good-sense, moderation, discretion.
  9. 1 Timothy 2:10 Or, by way of.
  10. 1 Timothy 2:10 Or, piety, reverence.
  11. 1 Timothy 2:12 Or, have independent rule over; or, domineer over.
  12. 1 Timothy 2:14 Adam sinned by deliberate choice.
  13. 1 Timothy 2:15 That is, the generic ‘woman’ of v 11, 12; or, Eve, v 14.
  14. 1 Timothy 2:15 Or, through. That is, directly and independently through Christ, just like the men. Or, through her childbearing; that is, while living in her childbearing role, just as men are saved in their toil, Gen 3:16-17.
  15. 1 Timothy 2:15 That is, the individual women represented by ‘she’ earlier in the verse.

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