| 1 | First of all, then, I admonish
and
urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men, |
| 2 | For kings and all who are in positions of authority
or
high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet
and
undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness
and
reverence and seriousness in every way. |
| 3 | For such [praying] is good
and
right, and [it is] pleasing
and
acceptable to God our Savior, |
| 4 | Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive
and
recognize
and
discern
and
know precisely
and
correctly the [divine] Truth. |
| 5 | For there [is only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, |
| 6 | Who gave Himself as a ransom for all [people, a fact that was] attested to at the right
and
proper time. |
| 7 | And of this matter I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (special messenger)—I am speaking the truth
in Christ
, I do not falsify [when I say this]—a teacher of the Gentiles in [the realm of] faith and truth. |
| 8 | I desire therefore that in every place men should pray, without anger
or
quarreling
or
resentment or doubt [in their minds], lifting up holy hands. |
| 9 | Also [I desire] that women should adorn themselves modestly
and
appropriately and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with [elaborate] hair arrangement or gold or pearls or expensive clothing, |
| 10 | But by doing good deeds (deeds in themselves good and for the good and advantage of those contacted by them), as befits women who profess reverential fear for
and
devotion to God. |
| 11 | Let a woman learn in quietness, in entire submissiveness. |
| 12 | I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to remain in quietness
and
keep silence [in religious assemblies]. |
| 13 | For Adam was first formed, then Eve; |
| 14 | And it was not Adam who was deceived, but [the] woman who was deceived
and
deluded and fell into transgression. |
| 15 | Nevertheless [the sentence put upon women of pain in motherhood does not hinder their souls’ salvation, and] they will be saved [eternally] if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control, [saved indeed]
[a]through the Childbearing
or
by the birth of the divine Child. |
Cross references:
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1 Timothy 2:13 : Gen. 2:7, 21, 22.
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1 Timothy 2:14 : Gen. 3:1-6.
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