Third Millennium Bible TMB
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
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First of all, I encourage you to make petitions, prayers, intercessions, and prayers of thanks for all people,
2 for kings and for all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
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for rulers, and for everyone who has authority over us. Pray for these people so that we can have a quiet and peaceful life always lived in a godly and reverent way.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
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This is good and pleases God our Savior.
4 who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
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He wants all people to be saved and to learn the truth.
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
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There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and humans--a human, Christ Jesus.
6 who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,
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He sacrificed himself for all people to free them from their sins. This message is valid for every era.
7 for which I am ordained a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth in Christ and lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
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I was appointed to spread this Good News and to be an apostle to teach people who are not Jewish about faith and truth. I'm telling you the truth. I'm not lying.
8 It is my will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands without wrath and doubting.
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I want men to offer prayers everywhere. They should raise their hands in prayer after putting aside their anger and any quarrels they have with anyone.
9 In like manner also, that women should adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobermindedness, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly array,
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I want women to show their beauty by dressing in appropriate clothes that are modest and respectable. Their beauty will be shown by what they do, not by their hair styles or the gold jewelry, pearls, or expensive clothes they wear.
10 but, as becometh women professing godliness, with good works.
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This is what is proper for women who claim to have reverence for God.
11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
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A woman must learn in silence, in keeping with her position.
12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
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I don't allow a woman to teach or to have authority over a man. Instead, she should be quiet.
13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
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After all, Adam was formed first, then Eve.
14 And Adam was not deceived; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression.
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Besides that, Adam was not deceived. It was the woman who was deceived and sinned.
15 Notwithstanding, she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobermindedness.
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However, she [and all women] will be saved through the birth of the child, if they lead respectable lives in faith, love, and holiness.
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