| Chapter 2 |
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I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men; |
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for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity; |
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for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God, |
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who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. |
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For God is one, and the mediator of God and men one, the man Christ Jesus, |
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who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times; |
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to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth. |
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I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning. |
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In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited hair and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, |
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but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works. |
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Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection; |
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but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness; |
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for Adam was formed first, then Eve: |
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and Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been deceived, was in transgression. |
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But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion. |