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[1]I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men:
[2]For kings, and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.
[3]For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,
[4]Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
[5]For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:
[6]Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.
[7]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.
[8]I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.
[9]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,
[10]But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
[11]Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.
[12]But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.
[13]For Adam was first formed; then Eve.
[14]And Adam was not seduced; but the woman being seduced, was in the transgression.
[15]Yet she shall be saved through childbearing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.
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