1 I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, 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 who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead 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 right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

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

4 w ho doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the 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 one God, one also mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

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

6 w ho did give 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 i n regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, 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 wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and 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 the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

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 -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through 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 in quietness learn in all subjection,

Let a woman learn in quietness, in entire submissiveness.

12 a nd a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, 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 first formed, then Eve,

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

14 a nd Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,

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

15 a nd she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

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.