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

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

2 f or kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

For 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.

3 f or this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,

For such is good and right, and pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior,

4 w ho desires that all men should be saved and come to knowledge of truth.

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

5 F or God is one, and mediator of God and men one, man Christ Jesus,

For there one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,

6 w ho gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times;

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

7 t o which I have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of nations in faith and truth.

And 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.

8 I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

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

9 I n like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,

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

10 b ut, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works.

But 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.

11 L et a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;

Let a woman learn in quietness, in entire submissiveness.

12 b ut I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;

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

13 f or Adam was formed first, then Eve:

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

14 a nd Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been deceived, was in transgression.

And it was not Adam who was deceived, but woman who was deceived and deluded and fell into transgression.

15 B ut she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

Nevertheless 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.