1. Timotheus 2

1. ¹I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men;
2. ²for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;
3. ³for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,
4. ⁴who desires that all men should be saved and come to [ergänzt: the] knowledge of [ergänzt: the] truth.
5. ⁵For God is one, and [ergänzt: the] mediator of God and men one, [ergänzt: the] man Christ Jesus,
6. ⁶who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony [ergänzt: to be rendered] in its own times;
7. ⁷to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak [ergänzt: the] truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of [ergänzt: the] nations in faith and truth.
8. ⁸I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.
9. ⁹In like manner also that the women in decent deportment and dress adorn themselves with modesty and discretion, not with plaited [ergänzt: hair] and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing,
10. ¹⁰but, what becomes women making profession of the fear of God, by good works.
11. ¹¹Let a woman learn in quietness in all subjection;
12. ¹²but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;
13. ¹³for Adam was formed first, then Eve:
14. ¹⁴and Adam was not deceived; but the woman, having been deceived, was in transgression.
15. ¹⁵But she shall be preserved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with discretion.

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