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1 Timothy 2:1-15

Contents: Exhortation to prayer. Divine order for the sexes.

Characters: God, Christ, Paul, Adam, Eve, Timothy.

Conclusion: Christians are to be men much given to prayer, and in their prayers having a generous concern for others as well as for themselves. They are to especially desire for those in civil authority that God will turn their hearts and direct them, making use of them for the accomplishing of His purposes.

Christian women are to be modest, sober, silent and submissive as becomes their place. Woman was created in subordination to man and was never intended to usurp authority, but to be a helpmeet.

Key Word: Prayer, 1 Timothy 2:1. Women, 1 Timothy 2:10.

Strong Verses: 1 Timothy 2:1; 1 Timothy 2:2; 1 Timothy 2:3; 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 Timothy 2:5; 1 Timothy 2:8.

Striking Facts: 1 Timothy 2:5-6. A Mediator supposes a controversy. Sin had made a quarrel between God and man. Jesus Christ, a Mediator, undertook to make peace. He gave Himself a ransom voluntarily so that all mankind might partake of the common salvation.

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