Lamsa(i)
1 I BESEECH you, therefore, first of all to offer to God, petitions, prayers, supplications, and thanksgiving for all men,
2 For kings and for all in authority; that we may live a quiet and peaceable life, in all purity and Godliness.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour:
4 Who desires all men to be saved and to return to the knowledge of the 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, a testimony which came in due time.
7 For that testimony I was appointed a preacher and an apostle; I tell the truth and I lie not; and I became the teacher of the Gentiles in a true faith.
8 I wish, therefore, that men pray everywhere, lifting up their holy hands, without anger and doubting thoughts.