1 Timothy 2
The
Message (MSG)
Simple Faith and Plain Truth
2 1-3 The first thing I want
you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray
especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly
about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our
Savior God wants us to live.
4-7 He wants not only us but everyone saved,
you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned:
that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and
us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to
set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only
has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of
God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.
8-10 Since prayer is at the
bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray—not shaking angry
fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in
there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing
the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming
beautiful doing it.
11-15 I don’t let women take
over and tell the men what to do. They should study to be quiet and obedient
along with everyone else. Adam was made first, then Eve; woman was deceived
first—our pioneer in sin!—with Adam right on her heels. On the other hand, her
childbearing brought about salvation, reversing Eve. But this salvation only
comes to those who continue in faith, love, and holiness, gathering it all into
maturity. You can depend on this.
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