Timothy, my son, I (PAUL) give YOU this INSTRUCTION in keeping with the prophecies once made about YOU, so that by following them YOU may FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, HOLDING ON TO FAITH and a GOOD CONSCIENCE. Some have REJECTED THESE and so have SHIPWRECKED their FAITH. Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to SATAN to be TAUGHT not to BLASPHEME.
INSTRUCTIONS ON WORSHIP
I (PAUL) URGE, THEN, FIRST OF ALL, THAT REQUEST, PRAYERS, INTERCESSION and THANKSGIVING BE MADE FOR EVERYONE - FOR KINGS and ALL THOSE IN AUTHORITY, that WE may live PEACEFUL and QUIET lives in all GODLINESS and HOLINESS. THIS IS GOOD, and PLEASES GOD OUR SAVIOR, WHO WANTS ALL MEN TO BE SAVED and TO COME TO A KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. For there is ONE GOD and ONE MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD and MEN, the MAN CHRIST JESUS, WHO GAVE HIMSELF AS A RASOM FOR ALL MEN - the TESTIMONY given in its proper time. And for this PURPOSE I WAS APPOINTED a HERALD and an APOSTLE - I AM TELLING THE TRUTH, I AM NOT LYING - and a TEACHER OF THE TRUE FAITH TO THE GENTLIES. (NON JEWS)
I WANT MEN EVERYWHERE TO LIFT UP HOLY HANDS IN PRAYER, WITHOUT ANGER OR DISPUTING.
I also want women to DRESS MODESTLY, with DECENCY and PROPRIETY, not with BRAIDED HAIR or GOLD or PEARLS or EXPENSIVE CLOTHES, but with GOOD DEEDS, APPROPRIATE FOR WOMEN WHO PROFESS TO WORSHIP GOD.
A WOMAN should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not PERMIT a WOMAN to teach or to have AUTHORITY OVER A MAN; SHE must be SILENT. For ADAM was formed first, then EVE. And ADAM was not the one DECEIVED; it was the WOMAN who was DECEIVED and became a sinner. But WOMEN will be SAVED through childbearing - if they continue in FAITH, LOVE and HOLINESS with PROPRIETY. AMEN!
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