| 2:1 | I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; |
| 2:2 | For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. |
| 2:2 | 為君王和一切在位的也該如此．使我們可以敬虔端正、平安無事的度日。 |
| 2:2 | 为君王和一切在位的也该如此。使我们可以敬虔端正，平安无事的度日。 |
| 1ts:4:12 | That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. |
| 1ti:3:2 | A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; |
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| 2:3 | For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; |
| 2:4 | Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. |
| 2:5 | For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; |
| 2:6 | Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. |
| 2:7 | Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. |
| 2:8 | I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. |
| 2:9 | In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; |
| 2:10 | But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works. |
| 2:11 | Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. |
| 2:12 | But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. |
| 2:13 | For Adam was first formed, then Eve. |
| 2:14 | And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. |
| 2:15 | Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. |
