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- I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;
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- for kings and all that are in high place;
that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
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- This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
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- who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
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- For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, [himself] man, Christ Jesus,
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- who gave himself a ransom for all;
the testimony [to be borne] in its own times;
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- whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
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- I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.
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- In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety;
not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
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- but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.
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- Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.
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- But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.
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- For Adam was first formed, then Eve;
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- and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:
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- but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
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