¹⁴ Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

¹ I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men:

² for kings and all who are in high places; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and reverence.

³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

⁴ who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

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

⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

⁷ to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

⁸ I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.