Chapter 2

   I exhort then, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men;  

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   including kings and all who are in high station, in order that we may live peaceful and tranquil lives with all godliness and gravity.  

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   This is right, and is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour,  

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   who is willing for all mankind to be saved and come to a full knowledge of the truth.  

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   For there is but one God and but one Mediator between God and men--Christ Jesus, Himself man;  

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   who gave Himself as the redemption price for all--a fact testified to at its own appointed time,  

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   and of which I have been appointed a herald and an Apostle (I am speaking the truth: it is not a fiction), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.  

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   So then I would have the men everywhere pray, lifting to God holy hands which are unstained with anger or strife;  

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   and I would have the women dress becomingly, with modesty and self-control, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes,  

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   but--as befits women making a claim to godliness--with the ornament of good works.  

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   A woman should quietly learn from others with entire submissiveness.  

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   I do not permit a woman to teach, nor have authority over a man, but she must remain silent.  

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   For Adam was formed first, and then Eve;  

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   and Adam was not deceived, but his wife was thoroughly deceived, and so became involved in transgression.  

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   Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.  

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