Bible verse

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

1 Timothy 2:8 · BSB

1 Timothy 2:8 in context

The verses around it, from 1 Timothy 2.

4 who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.

7 For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.

8 Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.

9 Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,

10 but with good deeds, as is proper for women who profess to worship God.

11 A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness.

12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

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1 Timothy 2:8 in other translations

KJV

I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

ASV

I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.

ERV

I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.

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