Chapter 2
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I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;
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for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
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For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
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who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
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For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,
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who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times;
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whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
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I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.
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In like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly raiment;
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but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
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Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
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But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
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For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
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and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:
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but she shall be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
