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¹ I exhort you therefore, above all things, to present supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving for all men: ² for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in the practice of all piety and virtue; ³ for such offices are commendable, and agreeable to God our saviour, ⁴ who wills that all men be saved, by embracing the truth. ⁵ for there is but one God, and but one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind: this is what was to be promulg'd in due time: ⁷ for this I was establish'd a herald and an apostle, I speak the truth without disguise, a doctor to instruct the Gentiles in the true faith. ⁸ I direct therefore that the men pray in publick and private, lifting up their hands to heaven with innocence, charity, and composure.

⁹ and that the women be decent in their apparel, adorned with modesty and reserve, not with broider'd hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; ¹⁰ but, as becomes women, who make a profession of religion, to be adorn'd with virtue. ¹¹ Let the women with submissive silence attend to instruction. ¹² for I don't allow a woman to be a teacher, nor to dictate to her husband; but let her be silent. ¹³ for Adam was the first that was form'd, then Eve. ¹⁴ Adam was not seduc'd, but the woman, who was the cause of his transgression. ¹⁵ however the women may be saved by educating their children, and persevering themselves in faith, in charity, in holiness and chastity. this may be depended upon as true.