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 high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
3. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4. who willeth that all men should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.
5. For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,
6. who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times;
7. whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.