1 Timothy 2:1-7

First of all, I want to encourage you to pray for everybody: make requests of God, ask on their behalf, and give thanks. Pray like this for kings and all types of leaders so that we may live quiet and peaceful lives, always thinking about God and taking life seriously. This is what is good, and what pleases God our Savior. He wants everyone to be saved, and come to understand what truth really is. For there is one God, and one mediator of God and mankind—the man Christ Jesus. He gave himself so we could all be won back, demonstrating the evidence at the right time. I was appointed to share this message and be its messenger, a teacher to the foreigners about trusting God and the truth (I'm not lying, I'm telling the truth!)