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1 Timothy 2 · Douay-Rheims

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1 Timothy 2

  1. 1 I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men:

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  2. 2 For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

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  3. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

  4. 4 Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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  5. 5 For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

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  6. 6 Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

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  7. 7 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

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  8. 8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

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  9. 9 In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

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  10. 10 But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

  11. 11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

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  12. 12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

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

  14. 14 And Adam was not seduced; but the woman, being seduced, was in the transgression.

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  15. 15 Yet she shall be saved through child bearing; if she continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

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