¹ I exhort then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men;

² for kings, and all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and propriety.

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

⁴ whose will is 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; to which the testimony was to be borne in its own due times,

⁷ whereunto I was appointed a herald and an apostle, (I speak the truth, I lie not,) a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸ I desire, then, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

⁹ In like manner also, that women, in seemly attire, adorn themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with braided hair, and gold, or pearls, or costly apparel;

¹⁰ but, as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

¹¹ Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

¹² But I suffer not the woman to teach, nor to have 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 fell into transgression.

¹⁵ But she will be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.