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1 Timothy 2:8 KJV
1 Timothy · chapter 2 · verse 8
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.1 Timothy 2:8 · King James Version
1 Timothy 2:8 in context
6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
7Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
9In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
10But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.
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Key words (Strong's)
- doubtingdialogismosthe thinking of a man deliberating with himself, a thought, inward reasoning, purpose…G1261 →
- withoutchōrisseparate, apart, without any, besidesG5565 →
- handscheirby the help or agency of any one, by means of any one, fig. applied to God symbolising…G5495 →
- wrathorgēanger, the natural disposition, temper, character, movement or agitation of the soul…G3709 →
- prayproseuchomaito offer prayers, to prayG4336 →
- holyhosiosundefiled by sin, free from wickedness, religiously observing every moral obligation…G3741 →
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Here is, I. A charge given to Christians to pray for all men in general, and particularly for all in authority. Timothy must take care that this be done. Paul does not send him any prescribed form of prayer, as we have reason to think he would if he had intended that ministers should be tied to that way of praying;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8