2:1 I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:
2:2 for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,
2:3 for this [is] right and acceptable before God our Saviour,
2:4 who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;
2:5 for one [is] God, one also [is] mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
2:6 who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --
2:7 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.
2:8 I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;
2:9 in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braidedhair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,
2:10 but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.
2:11 Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,
2:12 and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,
