| Chapter 2 |
1 | I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men:
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2 | For kings, and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.
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3 | For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,
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4 | Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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5 | For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:
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6 | Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.
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7 | Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle, (I say the truth, I lie not,) a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
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8 | I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.
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9 | In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire,
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10 | But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
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11 | Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.
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12 | But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.
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13 | For Adam was first formed; then Eve.
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14 | And Adam was not seduced; but the woman being seduced, was in the transgression.
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15 | Yet she shall be saved through childbearing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.
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