Sacred Scripture

1 Timothy 2

1. 1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;

   Ante-Nicene Fathers · 4

   • Clement (1)
   • Origen (1)
   • Tertullian (1)
   • Writings of Athenagoras (1)

2. 2 for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.

   Ante-Nicene Fathers · 6

   • Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions (2)
   • Early Liturgies (1)
   • Polycarp (1)
   • Tertullian (1)
   • Tertullian (1)
   • Theophilus of Antioch (1)

3. 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

4. 4 who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

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   • Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions (1)
   • Ignatius (1)
   • Methodius (1)
   • The Decretals (1)

5. 5 For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, [himself] man, Christ Jesus,

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   • Hippolytus (1)
   • Ignatius (3)
   • Irenaeus (1)
   • Lactantius (1)
   • Novatian (1)
   • Tertullian (4)

6. 6 who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony [to be borne] in its own times;

   Ante-Nicene Fathers · 1

   • Ignatius (1)

7. 7 whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

   Ante-Nicene Fathers · 1

   • Tertullian (1)

8. 8 I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.

   Ante-Nicene Fathers · 2

   • Apocrypha of the New Testament (1)
   • Tertullian (3)

9. 9 In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

   Ante-Nicene Fathers · 3

   • Clement of Alexandria (2)
   • Cyprian (2)
   • Tertullian (2)

10. 10 but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works.

11. 11 Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection.

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 3

    • Cyprian (1)
    • Tertullian (1)
    • Tertullian (1)

12. 12 But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness.

13. 13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

14. 14 and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression:

    Ante-Nicene Fathers · 1

    • Tertullian (1)

15. 15 but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.