¹Therefore I exhort, first of all, that entreaties, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made on behalf of all men,

²for kings and all those being in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and in all dignity.

³For this is good and acceptable before our Savior God,

⁴who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁵For there is one God, then one mediator between God and men, the man, the Anointed One Jesus,

⁶the One who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony in their own proper times,

⁷in regard to which I myself was appointed a herald and a sent one — the truth I am speaking in the Anointed One, I do not lie — a teacher of the nations in trust and truth.

⁸Therefore I desire the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands apart from anger and dissension;

⁹likewise also the women adorning themselves in respectable apparel with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair or with gold or with pearls or with costly clothing,

¹⁰but with what is becoming to women professing the fear of God, through good works.

¹¹A woman should learn in quietness, in all submissiveness;

¹²however I do not permit a woman to teach nor to use authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

¹³For Adam first was formed, then Eve.

¹⁴And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, has come into transgression;

¹⁵But she will be saved through the childbearing, if they remain in trust and love and holiness with self-restraint.