✧1I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; ✧2for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity. ✧3This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; ✧4who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. ✧5For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, [himself] man, Christ Jesus, ✧6who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony [to be borne] in its own times; ✧7whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. ✧8I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.
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✧9In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
✧10but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
✧11Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
✧12But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.