Chapter 2 I exhort, therefore, that first of all supplications,
prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings,
and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable
life in all godliness and honesty.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who will have
all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man, Christ
Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time.
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, I speak the truth in Christ,
and lie not, a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
I will, therefore, that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands,
without wrath and doubting.
In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with
shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls,
or costly array, but which becometh women professing godliness with good works.
Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence.
For Adam was first formed, then Eve, and Adam was not deceived, but the woman
being deceived was in the transgression.
Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith
and charity and holiness with sobriety.