Chapter 2

  I exhort therefore, that first of all supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men;  

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  For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.  

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  For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;  

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  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.  

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

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  Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.  

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  For which 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.  

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  I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.  

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  In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in decent apparel, with modesty and sobriety; not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array,  

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  But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.  

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  Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.  

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  But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.  

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  For Adam was first formed, then Eve.  

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  And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.  

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  Notwithstanding, she will be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness, with sobriety.  

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