1. Therefore, first of all I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgiving be made on behalf of all people—
2. for kings and all who are in authority—so we may live a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and respectfulness.
3. This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior.
4. He desires all men to be saved and come into the knowledge of the truth.
5. For there is one God and there is one Mediator between God and men—a human, Messiah Yeshua,
6. who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony at the proper time.
7. For this I was appointed a herald and an emissary (I am telling the truth; I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faithfulness and truth.