2Therefore, I urge first of all that petitions, prayers, requests, and thanksgiving be made on behalf of all people, ²on behalf of kings and all those who are in authority, in order that we may live a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. ³This is good and acceptable before God our Savior, ⁴who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. ⁵For there is one God and one mediator between God and human beings, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony at the proper time, ⁷for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle—I am speaking the truth, I am not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. ⁸Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and dispute.

Instructions for Women

⁹Likewise also the women should adorn themselves in appropriate clothing, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold jewelry or pearls or expensive clothing, ¹⁰but with good deeds which are fitting for women who profess godliness. ¹¹A woman must learn in quietness with all submission. ¹²But I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet^a. ¹³For Adam was formed first, then Eve, ¹⁴and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she^* was deceived, came into transgression. ¹⁵But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “to be in quietness”
*Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was deceived”) which is understood as causal