Thomson(i)
1 I therefore exhort thee first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men;
2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life with all piety and honesty;
3 for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our saviour,
4 who willeth all men to be saved, and to come to an acknowledgment of truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
6 who gave himself as a ransom for all; as the testimony for his own times;
7 for which I have been appointed a herald and an apostle, [I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie] a teacher of nations in belief and truth.
8 I therefore give it in charge that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and surmise: