1 Timothy 2

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

Instructions concerning Prayer

2 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, ² for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.^{(A) 3} This is right and acceptable before God our Savior,^{(B) 4} who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.^{(C) 5} For

—this was attested at the right time.^{(E) 7} For this I was appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the truth;^[a] I am not lying), a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.^(F)

⁸ I desire, then, that in every place the men should pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument, ⁹ also that the women should dress themselves in moderate clothing with reverence and self-control, not with their hair braided or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, ¹⁰ but with good works, as is proper for women who profess reverence for God. ¹¹ Let a woman^[b] learn in silence with full submission. ¹² I do not permit a woman^[c] to teach or to have authority over a man;^[d] she is to keep silent. ¹³ For Adam was formed first, then Eve,^{(G) 14} and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.^{(H) 15} Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.