The Word of God.

¹I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;#

²For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.#

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

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

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

⁶Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.#

⁷Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.#

⁸I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.#

⁹In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;#

¹⁰But (which 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 usurp 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 was in the transgression.#

¹⁵Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.#