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I exhort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men,
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for kings and all that are in high rank, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and gravity.
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For this [is] good and acceptable before our Saviour God,
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who desireth that all men should be saved and come unto full knowledge of truth.
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For [there is] one God, one Mediator also of God and men, Christ Jesus a man,
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who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony in its own times,
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to which I was appointed a preacher and apostle (I speak truth, I lie not), a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth.
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I wish then that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting;
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in like manner also that women in seemly deportment adorn themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with braids and gold or pearls or costly apparel,
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but, what becometh women professing godliness, by good works.
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Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection.
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But to teach I permit not a woman, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.
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For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
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and Adam was not deceived, but the woman quite deceived is become in transgression;
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but she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sobriety.