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- I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:
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- for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,
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- for this [is] right and acceptable before God our Saviour,
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- who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;
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- for one [is] God, one also [is] mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
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- who did give himself a ransom for all — the testimony in its own times —
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- in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle — truth I say in Christ, I do not lie — a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
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- I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;
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- in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,
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- but — which becometh women professing godly piety — through good works.
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- Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
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- and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,
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- for Adam was first formed, then Eve,
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- and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,
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- and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.
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