2. For kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way.
3. For such [praying] is good and right, and [it is] pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior,
4. Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth.
5. For there [is only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,
6. Who gave Himself as a ransom for all [people, a fact that was] attested to at the right and proper time.
7. And of this matter I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (special messenger)–I am speaking the truth in Christ, I do not falsify [when I say this]–a teacher of the Gentiles in [the realm of] faith and truth.