1 Timothy 2:1–3:13

I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men:

²For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

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

⁴Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁵For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

⁶Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

⁷Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

⁹In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

¹⁰But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

¹¹Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

¹²But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

¹³Adam was first formed; then Eve.

¹⁴And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression.

¹⁵Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

Chapter 3

A faithful saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth good work.

²It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

³Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

⁴One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

⁵But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

⁶Not a neophyte: lest, being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

⁷Moreover, he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

⁸Deacons in like manner: chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

⁹Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

¹⁰And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

¹¹The women in like manner: chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

¹²Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children and their own houses.

¹³For they that have ministered well shall purchase to themselves a good degree and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.