II.  I exhort then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;

²for kings, and all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and decorum.

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

⁴who desires that all should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁵For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

⁶who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time;

⁷whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸I desire, therefore, that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing;

⁹in like manner also that women, in becoming apparel, adorn themselves with modesty and sobriety; not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly raiment;

¹⁰but, which becomes women professing godliness, by means of good works.

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

¹²But I permit not the woman to teach, nor to have authority over the man, but to be in silence.

¹³For Adam was first formed, then Eve.

¹⁴And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into transgression.

¹⁵But she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.