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1: I exhort therefore,
that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of
thanks, be made for all men;
2: For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3: For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4: Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the
truth.
5: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus;
6: Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
7: Whereunto 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.
8: I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without
wrath and doubting.
9: In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with
shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair,
or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10: But (which becometh women professing godliness)
with good works.
11: Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12: But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man,
but to be in silence.
13: For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
14: And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the
transgression.
15: Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in
faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
The First Epistle to Timothy
Chapter Five
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1: Rebuke not an
elder, but intreat him as a father; and the
younger men as brethren;
2: The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
3: Honour widows that are widows indeed.
4: But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for
that is good and acceptable before God.
5: Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth
in God, and continueth in supplications and
prayers night and day.
6: But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while
she liveth.
7: And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
8: But if any provide not for his own, and specially
for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an
infidel.
9: Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old,
having been the wife of one man,
10: Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if
she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have
relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work.
11: But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton
against Christ, they will marry;
12: Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
13: And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house;
and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which
they ought not.
14: I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the
house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
15: For some are already turned aside after Satan.
16: If any man or woman that believeth have
widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it
may relieve them that are widows indeed.
17: Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour
in the word and doctrine.
18: For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth
out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his
reward.
19: Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three
witnesses.
20: Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
21: I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect
angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before
another, doing nothing by partiality.
22: Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be
partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.
23: Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and
thine often infirmities.
24: Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some
men they follow after.
25: Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they
that are otherwise cannot be hid.
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