1 F irst of all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men,

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;

2 F or kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way.

for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.

3 F or such is good and right, and pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior,

This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

4 W ho wishes all men to be saved and to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the Truth.

who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

5 F or there one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,

For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,

6 W ho gave Himself as a ransom for all attested to at the right and proper time.

who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times;

7 A nd of this matter I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (special messenger)—I am speaking the truth in Christ, I do not falsify —a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

8 I desire therefore that in every place men should pray, without anger or quarreling or resentment or doubt, lifting up holy hands.

I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.

9 A lso that women should adorn themselves modestly and appropriately and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with hair arrangement or gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

10 B ut by doing good deeds (deeds in themselves good and for the good and advantage of those contacted by them), as befits women who profess reverential fear for and devotion to God.

but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

11 L et a woman learn in quietness, in entire submissiveness.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

12 I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to remain in quietness and keep silence.

But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

13 F or Adam was first formed, then Eve;

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

14 A nd it was not Adam who was deceived, but woman who was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression.

and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:

15 N evertheless they will be saved if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control, through the Childbearing or by the birth of the divine Child.

but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.