1 Timothy 2
1 First of all, I want to encourage you to pray for everybody: make requests of God, ask on their behalf, and give thanks.
I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings, be made for all people:
2 Pray like this for kings and all types of leaders so that we may live quiet and peaceful lives, always thinking about God and taking life seriously.
for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.
3 This is what is good, and what pleases God our Savior.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
4 He wants everyone to be saved, and come to understand what truth really is.
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator of God and mankind—the man Christ Jesus.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and humanity, a human, Christ Jesus,
6 He gave himself so we could all be won back, demonstrating the evidence at the right time.
who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
7 I was appointed to share this message and be its messenger, a teacher to the foreigners about trusting God and the truth (I'm not lying, I'm telling the truth!)
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the non-Jews in faith and truth.
8 What I really want is for men everywhere to pray sincerely to God. No anger or arguments!
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
9 In the same way, women should dress sensibly, modestly, and appropriately. They should be attractive not in their hairstyle or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
10 but by the good things they do—as is appropriate for women who claim to follow God.
but (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
11 Women should learn quietly, respecting their place.
Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
12 I don't allow women to be instructors, or to dominate men; let them remain quiet.
But I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
13 For Adam was made first, and then Eve.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14 Adam wasn't deceived, but Eve was completely deceived, and she fell into sin.
Adam was not deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;
15 However, women will be saved through becoming mothers, as long as they continue to trust and love, and to live holy, sensible lives.
but she will be delivered through the childbirth, if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
