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Pray for All People

 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, ² for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. ³ This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴ who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man^[a]Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time. ⁷ For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸ I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; ⁹ likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, ¹⁰ but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works. ¹¹ Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. ¹² I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. ¹³ For Adam was formed first, then Eve; ¹⁴ and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. ¹⁵ Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Footnotes:

1. 1 Timothy 2:5 men and manrender the same Greek word that is translated people in verses 1 and 4

Cross references:

1. 1 Timothy 2:2 : Ezra 6:10
2. 1 Timothy 2:2 : ch. 3:4
3. 1 Timothy 2:3 : ch. 5:4
4. 1 Timothy 2:3 : ch. 1:1
5. 1 Timothy 2:4 : ch. 4:10; Ezek. 18:23, 32
6. 1 Timothy 2:4 : 2 Tim. 3:7
7. 1 Timothy 2:4 : 2 Tim. 2:25; Titus 1:1; Heb. 10:26
8. 1 Timothy 2:5 : See Gal. 3:20
9. 1 Timothy 2:6 : See Matt. 20:28
10. 1 Timothy 2:6 : See 1 Cor. 1:6
11. 1 Timothy 2:6 : ch. 6:15; Titus 1:3; [Gal. 4:4]
12. 1 Timothy 2:7 : ch. 1:11; Eph. 3:7, 8; 2 Tim. 1:11
13. 1 Timothy 2:7 : See Rom. 9:1
14. 1 Timothy 2:7 : See Acts 9:15
15. 1 Timothy 2:8 : [John 4:21]
16. 1 Timothy 2:8 : Ps. 63:4; 119:48; [Isa. 1:15]
17. 1 Timothy 2:8 : Job 17:9; Ps. 24:4
18. 1 Timothy 2:9 : 1 Pet. 3:3; [Isa. 3:18-23]
19. 1 Timothy 2:10 : [1 Pet. 3:4]
20. 1 Timothy 2:11 : Titus 2:5
21. 1 Timothy 2:12 : [1 Cor. 14:34]
22. 1 Timothy 2:13 : Gen. 1:27; 2:8
23. 1 Timothy 2:13 : Gen. 2:18, 22
24. 1 Timothy 2:14 : Gen. 3:6, 13
25. 1 Timothy 2:15 : [Gal. 4:4]
26. 1 Timothy 2:15 : ch. 1:14