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# 1 Timothy 2

1 Timothy 2 is chapter 2 of 6 in the First Letter to Timothy. Here are all 15 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Prayers are to be said for all men, because God wills the salvation of all. Women are not to teach.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Timothy 2 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And so I beg you, first of all, to make supplications, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings for all men,
2. for kings, and for all who are in high places, so that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and chastity.
3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
4. who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth.
5. For there is one God, and one mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,
6. who gave himself as a redemption for all, as a testimony in its proper time.
7. Of this testimony, I have been appointed a preacher and an Apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie) as a teacher of the Gentiles, in faith and in truth.
8. Therefore, I want men to pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger or dissension.
9. Similarly also, women should be dressed fittingly, adorning themselves with compunction and restraint, and not with plaited hair, nor gold, nor pearls, nor costly attire,
10. but in a manner proper for women who are professing piety by means of good works.
11. Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection.
12. For I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to be in authority over a man, but to be in silence.
13. For Adam was formed first, then Eve.
14. And Adam was not seduced, but the woman, having been seduced, was in transgression.
15. Yet she will be saved by bearing children, if she has continued in faith and love, and in sanctification accompanied by self-restraint.

## 1 Timothy 2 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Obsecro igitur primum omnium fieri obsecrationes, orationes, postulationes, gratiarum actiones, pro omnibus hominibus:
2. pro regibus, et omnibus qui in sublimitate sunt, ut quietam et tranquillam vitam agamus in omni pietate, et castitate:
3. hoc enim bonum est, et acceptum coram Salvatore nostro Deo,
4. qui omnes homines vult salvos fieri, et ad agnitionem veritatis venire.
5. Unus enim Deus, unus et mediator Dei et hominum homo Christus Jesus:
6. qui dedit redemptionem semetipsum pro omnibus, testimonium temporibus suis:
7. in quo positus sum ego prædicator, et Apostolus (veritatem dico, non mentior) doctor gentium in fide, et veritate.
8. Volo ergo viros orare in omni loco, levantes puras manus sine ira et disceptatione.
9. Similiter et mulieres in habitu ornato, cum verecundia et sobrietate ornantes se, et non in tortis crinibus, aut auro, aut margaritis, vel veste pretiosa:
10. sed quod decet mulieres, promittentes pietatem per opera bona.
11. Mulier in silentio discat cum omni subjectione.
12. Docere autem mulieri non permitto, neque dominari in virum: sed esse in silentio.
13. Adam enim primus formatus est: deinde Heva:
14. et Adam non est seductus: mulier autem seducta in prævaricatione fuit.
15. Salvabitur autem per filiorum generationem, si permanserit in fide, et dilectione, et sanctificatione cum sobrietate.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 1349: The Liturgical Celebration of the Eucharist ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1852: The Different Kinds of Sins ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2822: "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It is in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 74: The Transmission of Divine Revelation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 851: The Church Is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1821: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1256: Who can Baptize? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1261: The Necessity of Baptism ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2574: In the Old Testament ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2634: Prayer of Intercession ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 956: The Communion of Saints ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 5: “One mediator” … Christ is the one and only mediator of redemption, who gave himself, as the apostle writes in the following verse.
- Verse 6: “a redemption for all” … He is also the only mediator, who stands in need of no other to recommend his petitions to the Father. But this is not against our seeking the prayers and intercession, as well of the faithful upon earth, as of the saints and angels in heaven, for obtaining mercy, grace, and salvation, through Jesus Christ. As St. Paul himself often desired the help of the prayers of the faithful, without any injury to the mediatorship of Jesus Christ.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Sep 13, 2027 (computed): St. John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church — First Reading, 1 Timothy 2:1-8
- Sun, Sep 24, 2028 (computed): Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, 1 Timothy 2:1-8

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).