2First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, requests, and thanksgivings be offered to God for all people; ²for kings and all others who are in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceful life with all reverence towards God and with proper conduct. ³This is good and it pleases God our Saviour, ⁴who wants everyone to be saved and to come to know the truth. ⁵For there is one God, and there is one who brings God and human beings together, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶who gave himself to redeem everyone. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved, ⁷^*and that is why I was sent as an apostle and teacher of the Gentiles, to proclaim the message of faith and truth. I am not lying; I am telling the truth!

⁸In every church service I want the men to pray, men who are dedicated to God and can lift up their hands in prayer without anger or argument. ⁹^*I also want the women to be modest and sensible about their clothes and to dress properly; not with fancy hair styles or with gold ornaments or pearls or expensive dresses, ¹⁰but with good deeds, as is proper for women who claim to be religious. ¹¹Women should learn in silence and all humility. ¹²I do not allow them to teach or to have authority over men; they must keep quiet. ¹³^*For Adam was created first, and then Eve. ¹⁴^*And it was not Adam who was deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and broke God’s law. ¹⁵But a woman will be saved through having children,^a if she perseveres^b in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

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Footnotes

awill be saved through having children; or will be kept safe through childbirth.
bif she perseveres; or if they persevere.

Cross references

*2.7: 2 Ti 1:11
*2.9: 1 P 3:3
*2.13 a: Gn 2:7 2.13 b: Gn 2:21, 22
*2.14: Gn 3:1–6