1First of all, then, I urge you to offer petitions, prayers, intercessions, and expressions of thanks for all people, 2for kings, and for everyone who has authority, so that we might lead a quiet and peaceful life with all godliness and dignity. 3This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4who wants all people to be saved and to come to a full knowledge of the truth. 5There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and human beings—a human, Christ Jesus. 6He gave himself as a ransom for all, a fact that was acknowledged at the right time. 7For this reason I was appointed to be a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. (I am telling you the truth. I am not lying.) 8Therefore, I want the men to offer prayers in every place, lifting up holy hands without being angry or argumentative. 9Women, for their part, should display their beauty by dressing modestly and decently in appropriate clothes, not by braiding their hair or by wearing gold, pearls, or expensive clothes, 10but through good works. This is proper for women who claim to have reverence for God. 11A woman must learn quietly with full submission. 12Moreover, I do not allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. Instead, she is to be quiet. 13For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14And it was not Adam who was deceived. It was the woman who was deceived and became a lawbreaker. 15However, women will be saved by having children, if they continue to have faith, love, and holiness, along with good judgment.