Haweis(i)
1 I EXHORT therefore, first of all, that there be offered supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings for the whole race of mankind:
2 for kings, and all that are in a state of eminence, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and seriousness.
3 For this is becoming, and acceptable before God our Saviour;
4 who wills all men to be saved, and come to the acknowledgment of truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be born in his appointed times;
7 of which I am ordained a preacher and apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, I lie not,) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
8 I will then that men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath or doubting: