2:1 First of all, then, I urge you to offer petitions, prayers, intercessions, and expressions of thanks for all people, |
2:2 for kings, and for everyone who has authority, so that we might lead a quiet and peaceful life with all godliness and dignity. |
2:3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, |
2:4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a full knowledge of the truth. |
2:5 There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings-a human, Christ Jesus. |
2:6 He gave himself as a ransom for all, a fact that was acknowledged at the right time. |
2:7 For this reason I was appointed to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth. (I am telling you the truth. I am not lying.) |
2:8 Therefore, I want the men to offer prayers in every place, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative. |
2:9 Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not by braiding their hair or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, |
2:10 but through good works. This is proper for women who claim to have reverence for God. |
2:11 A woman must learn quietly with full submission. |
2:12 Moreover, I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. Instead, she is to be quiet. |
2:13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. |
2:14 And it was not Adam who was deceived. It was the woman who was deceived and became a lawbreaker. |
2:15 However, women will be saved by having children, if they continue to have faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment. |