2:1 FIRST OF all, then, I admonish {and} urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men, |
2:2 For kings and all who are in positions of authority {or} high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet {and} undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness {and} reverence and seriousness in every way. |
2:3 For such [praying] is good {and} right, and [it is] pleasing {and} acceptable to God our Savior, |
2:4 Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive {and} recognize {and} discern {and} know precisely {and} correctly the [divine] Truth. |
2:5 For there [is only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, |
2:6 Who gave Himself as a ransom for all [people, a fact that was] attested to at the right {and} proper time. |
2:7 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 [when I say this]--a teacher of the Gentiles in [the realm of] faith and truth. |
2:8 I desire therefore that in every place men should pray, without anger {or} quarreling {or} resentment or doubt [in their minds], lifting up holy hands. |
2:9 Also [I desire] that women should adorn themselves modestly {and} appropriately and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with [elaborate] hair arrangement or gold or pearls or expensive clothing, |
2:10 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. |
2:11 Let a woman learn in quietness, in entire submissiveness. |
2:12 I allow no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to remain in quietness {and} keep silence [in religious assemblies]. |
2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve; |
2:14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but [the] woman who was deceived {and} deluded and fell into transgression. |
2:15 Nevertheless [the sentence put upon women of pain in motherhood does not hinder their souls' salvation, and] they will be saved [eternally] if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control, [saved indeed] through the Childbearing {or} by the birth of the divine Child. |