Instruction About Prayer

1I urge then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

2for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives in all godliness and dignity.

3⁷For this is good and acceptable before God our Savior,

4who wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

5For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

6who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

7For this testimony I was appointed to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. (I am speaking the truth ⁸in Christ; I am not lying.)

8Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or ⁹argument.

9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and discretion, not with elaborately braided ¹⁰hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,

10but with good works, which is proper for women who profess godly reverence.

11A woman should learn quietly with full submission.

12I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.

13For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

14And Adam was not the one who was deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and fell into transgression.

15Nevertheless, women will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.