1. Therefore I exhort first of all that you make supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings for everyone,
2. for kings and for all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty,
3. for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4. who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
5. There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,