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1 Timothy 2

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation

1 I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all men: 1 CCC

2 For kings and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity. CCC

3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, CCC

4 Who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. CCC

5 For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus: 2 CCC · Fathers

6 Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times. CCC

7 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle (I say the truth, I lie not), a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth. CCC

8 I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention. CCC

9 In like manner, women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire:

10 But, as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

Where our lessons quote this chapter

  1. Verse 1: The saints, and asking for prayers
  2. Verse 5: Mary: honored, not worshiped

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

  1. Verse 1CCC 1349 CCC 1900
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    • CCC 1349 “The Liturgy of the Word includes "the writings of the prophets," that is, the Old Testament, and "the memoirs of the apostles"…”
    • CCC 1900 “The duty of obedience requires all to give due honor to authority and to treat those who are charged to exercise it…”
  2. Verse 2CCC 1349 CCC 1900 CCC 2240
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    • CCC 1349 “The Liturgy of the Word includes "the writings of the prophets," that is, the Old Testament, and "the memoirs of the apostles"…”
    • CCC 1900 “The duty of obedience requires all to give due honor to authority and to treat those who are charged to exercise it…”
    • CCC 2240 “Submission to authority and co-responsibility for the common good make it morally obligatory to pay taxes, to exercise the right to vote,…”
  3. Verse 3CCC 2822
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    • CCC 2822 “Our Father "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." He "is forbearing toward you,…”
  4. Verse 4CCC 851 CCC 1256 CCC 1261 CCC 1821 CCC 2822 CCC 74
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    • CCC 851 “Missionary motivation. It is from God's love for all men that the Church in every age receives both the obligation and the…”
    • CCC 1256 “The ordinary ministers of Baptism are the bishop and priest and, in the Latin Church, also the deacon. In case of necessity,…”
    • CCC 1261 “As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does…”
    • CCC 1821 “We can therefore hope in the glory of heaven promised by God to those who love him and do his will. In…”
    • CCC 2822 “Our Father "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." He "is forbearing toward you,…”
    • CCC 74 “God "desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth": that is, of Christ Jesus. Christ…”
  5. Verse 5CCC 618 CCC 956 CCC 2574 CCC 2634
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    • CCC 618 “The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the "one mediator between God and men". But because in his incarnate divine person…”
    • CCC 956 “The intercession of the saints. "Being more closely united to Christ, those who dwell in heaven fix the whole Church more firmly…”
    • CCC 2574 “Once the promise begins to be fulfilled (Passover, the Exodus, the gift of the Law, and the ratification of the covenant), the…”
    • CCC 2634 “Intercession is a prayer of petition which leads us to pray as Jesus did. He is the one intercessor with the Father…”

    • “And therefore in the last times the Lord has restored us into friendship through His incarnation, having become "the Mediator between God and men;”

      Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  6. Verse 6CCC 2634
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    • CCC 2634 “Intercession is a prayer of petition which leads us to pray as Jesus did. He is the one intercessor with the Father…”
  7. Verse 7CCC 2634
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    • CCC 2634 “Intercession is a prayer of petition which leads us to pray as Jesus did. He is the one intercessor with the Father…”
  8. Verse 8CCC 2634
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    • CCC 2634 “Intercession is a prayer of petition which leads us to pray as Jesus did. He is the one intercessor with the Father…”
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