11Gk. to make supplications etc.
2: 2 for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
2: 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
2: 4 who would have all men 12to be saved, and come to a full knowledge of truth.
12Lit. to have been saved and to have come to
2: 5 For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself having been a man, Christ Jesus,
2: 6 the one having given himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times;
2: 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.
2: 8 I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath and 13disputing.
13Or, doubting.
2: 9 In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
2: 10 but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
2: 11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
2: 12 But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
2: 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
2: 14 and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:
2: 15 but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
