The Daily Audio Bible

2 Therefore, I encourage most of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all mankind;

² for kings, and for all who are in authority. So that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty.

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

⁴ Who desires that all mankind should be saved and come to the acknowledgment of the Truth.

⁵ For there is one God - and one Mediator between God and man - Who is the man, Christ Jesus.

⁶ He gave Himself - a ransom for all - to be that testimony in due time.

⁷ To this I am ordained a preacher and an Apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, and do not lie), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸ Therefore, I desire that the men pray everywhere, lifting up pure hands without wrath or doubting;

⁹ also that the women clothe themselves in appropriate apparel, with discretion and modesty (not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly garments,

¹⁰ but as becomes women who profess the fear of God with good works).

¹¹ Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.

¹² I do not permit a woman to teach or to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

¹³ For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived. But the woman, being deceived, was in transgression.

¹⁵ Nevertheless, through the bearing of children she shall be saved, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with modesty.