1 I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men;
2 for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;
3 for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,
4 who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.
5 For God is one, and the mediator of God and men one, the man Christ Jesus,
6 who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times;