1 First of all, I want to encourage you to pray for everybody: make requests of God, ask on their behalf, and give thanks. 2 Pray like this for kings and all types of leaders so that we may live quiet and peaceful lives, always thinking about God and taking life seriously. 3 This is what is good, and what pleases God our Savior. 4 He wants everyone to be saved, and come to understand what truth really is. 5 For there is one God, and one mediator of God and mankind—the man Christ Jesus. 6 He gave himself so we could all be won back, demonstrating the evidence at the right time. 7 I was appointed to share this message and be its messenger, a teacher to the foreigners about trusting God and the truth (I'm not lying, I'm telling the truth!) 8 What I really want is for men everywhere to pray sincerely to God. No anger or arguments! 9 In the same way, women should dress sensibly, modestly, and appropriately. They should be attractive not in their hairstyle or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but by the good things they do—as is appropriate for women who claim to follow God. 11 Women should learn quietly, respecting their place. 12 I don't allow women to be instructors, or to dominate men; let them remain quiet. 13 For Adam was made first, and then Eve. 14 Adam wasn't deceived, but Eve was completely deceived, and she fell into sin. 15 However, women will be saved through becoming mothers, as long as they continue to trust and love, and to live holy, sensible lives.
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Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Thessalonians 1:3; Matthew 6:9–10; James 5:16; Psalm 67:1–4; Ephesians 5:20
- 2 Jeremiah 29:7; 1 Peter 2:9–13; Ezra 6:10; Romans 13:1–7; Proverbs 24:21
- 3 Hebrews 13:16; 1 Timothy 1:1; 1 Peter 2:20; Romans 14:18; 1 Peter 2:5
- 4 Ezekiel 18:32; 2 Peter 3:9; Ezekiel 18:23; Titus 2:11; Ezekiel 33:11
- 5 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 3:20; Hebrews 9:15; Hebrews 7:25; Deuteronomy 6:4
- 6 Matthew 20:28; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 John 2:1–2; 1 John 4:10; Revelation 1:5
- 7 Acts 9:15; 2 Timothy 1:11; Romans 9:1; Ephesians 3:7–8; Romans 15:16
- 8 Psalm 134:2; Psalm 63:4; Hebrews 10:22; Titus 3:8; James 4:8
- 9 1 Peter 3:3–5; Titus 2:3–5; Psalm 149:4; Jeremiah 4:30; Isaiah 3:16
- 10 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 3:3–5; Revelation 2:19; Proverbs 31:31; Acts 9:36
- 11 1 Corinthians 14:34–35; Ephesians 5:22–24; 1 Corinthians 11:3; Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:5–6
- 12 1 Corinthians 14:34
- 13 1 Corinthians 11:8–9; Genesis 2:18; Genesis 2:22; Genesis 1:27; Genesis 2:7
- 14 2 Corinthians 11:3; Genesis 3:6; Genesis 3:12–13
- 15 Titus 2:12; Genesis 3:15–16; 1 Peter 4:7; 1 Timothy 1:5; 1 Timothy 2:9
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
[R.V.: who willeth that all men should be saved, &c.] The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is proper therefore that he should care for all, even as God, Whom he serves.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
And therefore in the last times the Lord has restored us into friendship through His incarnation, having become "the Mediator between God and men;" propitiating indeed for us the Father against whom we had sinned, and cancelling (consolatus) our disobedience by His own obedience; conferring also upon us the gift of communion with, and subjection to, our Maker.
And I sought a way of acquiring strength sufficient to enjoy Thee; but I found it not until I embraced that "Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus," "who is over all, God blessed for ever," calling unto me, and saying, "I am the way, the truth, and the life," and mingling that food which I was unable …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Wherefore Paul also, making mention of prayer, required nothing so much as the observance of this commandment; for He saith, "lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting." And if when thou hast need of mercy, not even then wilt thou let go thine anger, but art rather exceedingly mindful of it, and that, although thou knowest thou art thrusting …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
If Phinees, when he waxed zealous and slew the evil-doer, staved the wrath of God, shall not Jesus, who slew not another, but gave up Himself for a ransom, put away the wrath which is against mankind?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)