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Themes 14 ▾
Love 1 Prayer 1-2, 8 Peace 2 Truth 4, 7 Incarnation 5 Kingship of Christ 5 Redemption 6 Atonement 6 Lamb of God 6 Faith 7 Church 7 Holiness 8-9 Obedience and Disobedience 9 Marriage and Family 9
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Jesus Life of Christ 5 Adam Primeval 13-14 Eve Primeval 13
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Catechism of the Catholic Church 12× 1-8 Homilies on the Gospel of John 2× 1, 9 Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans 4× 1, 9, 12, 14-15 Homilies on the First Epistle to the Corinthians 2× 1, 9, 14 Summa Theologica 8× 1, 4-5, 7, 12, 14 Belgic Confession 3× 1-2, 5 Second Helvetic Confession 5× 1-2, 4-5, 8 New Hampshire Confession of Faith 1× 1-2 City of God 7× 2, 5, 14 Mystici Corporis Christi 3× 2, 5 An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 1× 4 Confession of Dositheus 4× 4-6 Against Heresies (Adversus Haereses) 1× 5 Mediator Dei 2× 5 Westminster Confession of Faith 2× 5, 8 Westminster Shorter Catechism 1× 5-6 Augsburg Confession 1× 5 Epistle to the Ephesians 1× 5 Commentary on the Gospel According to John 1× 5 Confessions 3× 5 Chalcedonian Definition 1× 5 Council of Trent, Session 5: Decree on Original Sin 1× 5 The Sixty-Seven Theses 2× 5 Heidelberg Catechism 7× 5-6, 8, 13-14 London Baptist Confession of 1689 1× 5 Athanasian Creed (Quicunque Vult) 1× 5 Against Praxeas 1× 5 Tome of Leo 1× 5 Catechetical Lectures 1× 5 Homilies on the Epistle to the Hebrews 2× 6, 9 Homilies on Matthew 3× 8-9 The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women 2× 11-13 Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible 1× 1-15 John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible 1× 1-14 Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary 1× 1, 9 Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary 1× 2-15
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Codex Sinaiticus Aleph c. AD 330-360 Codex Alexandrinus A c. AD 400-440 Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus C c. AD 450 Codex Claromontanus D2 c. AD 500-550
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What is 1 Timothy 2 about?

Turning from the defense of doctrine to the ordering of the church's worship, Paul urges that supplications, prayers, and thanksgivings be made for all men, and especially for kings and all in authority, that believers may lead quiet and peaceable lives in godliness. He grounds this appeal in the truth that there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all. He then directs men to pray lifting up holy hands without wrath, and women to adorn themselves modestly, to learn in quietness, and not to teach or usurp authority over a man, appealing to Adam's prior formation and to Eve's being deceived. Faithful Christians differ over how this instruction that a woman not teach or exercise authority over a man applies to church office today, holding either a complementarian or an egalitarian view. Ordered worship thus remains anchored to the one Mediator through whom alone God is rightly approached.

Historical backdrop

By the tradition Paul was released from his first Roman imprisonment and returned east, leaving Timothy to steady the church at Ephesus. That city remained the cult center of Artemis and a hub of Roman Asia, wealthy, crowded, and religiously restless. He wrote in the early 60s, while Nero reigned and the first generation of the church took up the work of ordering itself for the long haul.

Matthew Henry on 1 Timothy 2
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on 1 Timothy 2
The Church Fathers on 1 Timothy 2
Cited by the confessions

1 Timothy 2

1 Timothy Chapter 2
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1I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; 2for kings and all that are in high place; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity. 3This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth. 5For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, 6who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times; 7whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. 8I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing. 9In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment; 10but (which becometh women professing godliness) through good works. 11Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. 12But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have dominion over a man, but to be in quietness. 13For Adam was first formed, then Eve; 14and Adam was not beguiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen into transgression: 15but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.

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What is 1 Timothy 2 about?

Turning from the defense of doctrine to the ordering of the church's worship, Paul urges that supplications, prayers, and thanksgivings be made for all men, and especially for kings and all in authority, that believers may lead quiet and peaceable lives in godliness. He grounds this appeal in the truth that there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all. He then directs men to pray lifting up holy hands without wrath, and women to adorn themselves modestly, to learn in quietness, and not to teach or usurp authority over a man, appealing to Adam's prior formation and to Eve's being deceived. Faithful Christians differ over how this instruction that a woman not teach or exercise authority over a man applies to church office today, holding either a complementarian or an egalitarian view. Ordered worship thus remains anchored to the one Mediator through whom alone God is rightly approached.