2 Then first of all I urge you all to pray for all people—petitioning to God while also expressing thanks for them. 2 So too for national leaders and other prominent officials so that we can live a quiet and tranquil life with all devoutness and dignity. 3 This is good and pleasing to God our saviour 4 who wants everyone to be saved and to know the truth.[ref] 5 There’s only one God and also one mediator between God and humankind and that’s the man Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) the messiah 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people and as a testimony of God’s love for all time. 7 I was appointed to proclaim that message and as a missionary—no lies, I’m telling you the truth here in the messiah—and also as a teacher of knowledge and the truth to non-Jews.[ref]

8 That’s why I long to see men praying in every country, lifting up their morally-clean hands and not harbouring anger or disunity.

9 Similarly women should wear respectable clothes that are sensible and modest, not with hair extensions or gold or pearls or expensive clothing,[ref] 10 but with what is fitting for women who do good things, having declared that they honour god. 11 Women should be learning quietly and submissively, 12 but I don’t permit women to be teaching or domineering men. They should remain quiet 13 because Adam was created first,[ref] then Havah (Eve),[ref] 14 and it wasn’t Adam that was seduced but rather it was the woman that was deceived and disobeyed.[ref] 15 But women will be saved through childbearing if they continue in faith and love and purity and self-control.