1 First of all, I want to encourage you to pray for everybody: make requests of God, ask on their behalf, and give thanks. 2 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. 3 This is what is good, and what pleases God our Savior. 4 He wants everyone to be saved, and come to understand what truth really is.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator of God and mankind—the man Christ Jesus. 6 He gave himself so we could all be won back, demonstrating the evidence at the right time.