About prayer
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📚I exhort, therefore, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men, 2 📚for kings, and for all those in authority, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
God’s desire for all men
3 📚For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, 4 📚who wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
One God, one Mediator, one ransom
5 📚For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 📚who gave himself a ransom for all, testimony about this given in due time.
7 📚For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am speaking the truth in Christ, and am not lying), and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
8 📚So I want men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger and doubting.
Proper behavior and dress for Christian women
9 📚In the same way I want women to dress in decent clothing, modestly and soberly; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly garments, 10 📚but with good works (which is proper for women professing godliness).
11 📚Let a woman learn in silence with complete submission. 12 📚And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over the man, but to be silent. 13 📚For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 📚And Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. 15 📚However, she will be saved in childbirth, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control.