1I’m writing now about your church meetings. The first thing I want to tell you is that you have to pray for all kinds of people. Ask God to help those that have problems. Tell him all about them and ask him to help them. Always thank God too for everything that he has done for everybody.
2Pray for the bosses of your country, both the big bosses and those other bosses that work for them. Ask God to help them run the country the right way so that we can all live well, follow God and praise him together, with no problems.
3If we pray for everybody like this we make God happy. He is the one that saves us,
4and he wants to save everybody. He wants everybody to know the true message about Jesus.
5You see, there is only one God, and there is only one man that can stand between God and us people, to bring us back to God and ask him not to punish us. That man is Jesus Christ.
6He let people kill him, like they kill an animal to give it to God. In that way he paid the cost for everybody, so that now God can save everybody. He died like that at just the right time to show everybody that God really wants to save them.
7And God has picked me to go and tell everybody this true message. What I’m saying now is really true. I’m not lying. He picked me to go to those people that are not Jewish and tell them that God will save them too.
8So in your meetings at every place, who will pray? I just want those men to pray that live the kind of lives that make God happy. They are the ones that can pray. If somebody is angry, or if he wants to argue with others, he can’t get up and pray.
9And in your meetings, I want the women to dress properly and sensibly. They can’t dress in a way that makes men look at them. They can’t think about the fancy clothes they will wear, or their fancy hairdo, or the jewels that they want to wear, like gold or pearls. Those things are not important.
10This is more important. They have to do good to other people, so that everyone will see that they are women that really know God.
11Women have to listen to the teacher in a meeting, and not argue with him.
12I don’t let women teach men or be men’s bosses in spiritual things. They just have to be quiet.
13You see, God made people a long time ago, and he made the man first. His name was Adam. After that he made the woman. Her name was Eve.
14And then that snake came to trick them, but he didn’t trick Adam. He tricked Eve, and she went wrong first.
15But God will save women from big trouble. He worked it out for them to become mothers, and that makes them important. So God will save them if they keep on believing in him, and loving people, and really respect God, and if they keep on being sensible.
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