Chapter 2

Prayers are to be said for all men: because God wills the salvation of all. Women are not to teach.

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   I desire, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men:

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   For kings, and for all who are in high station, that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life, in all piety and chastity.

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   For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Saviour,

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   Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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   For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

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   Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times:

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   Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, (I say the truth, I lie not) a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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   I will, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands without anger and strife.

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   In like manner women also in decent apparel, adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

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    But as it becometh women professing piety, by good works.

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    Let the women learn in silence, with all subjection.

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    But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

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    For Adam was first formed, then Eve:

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    And Adam was not seduced, but the woman being seduced was in the transgression.

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    Yet she shall be saved by bearing children, if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification with sobriety.