1 Timothy 2

¹I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made on behalf of all people,

²for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.

³For this is good and acceptable before God our Savior,

⁴who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

⁵For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁶who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony at its own times,

⁷for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle — I am telling the truth in Christ, I do not lie — a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, apart from anger and dispute;

⁹Likewise also the women are to adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly clothing,

¹⁰but with what is fitting for women professing reverence for God, through good works.

¹¹A woman is to learn in quietness, in all submissiveness;

¹²But I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.

¹³For Adam was formed first, then Eve.

¹⁴And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been thoroughly deceived, has fallen into transgression;

¹⁵But she will be saved through the childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.