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+# 1 Timothy 2
+## 2:1-4
+
+### What was an “intercession”?
+
+An intercession was a prayer. This was a prayer made to God for a specific person or was asking God to
+help because a specific thing that was happening to a person.
+
+### How did a person live a “peaceful and quiet” life?
+
+Scholars think someone had a “peaceful” life when they were at peace. They were at peace with
+themselves or had peace inside of themselves. These scholars think someone had a “quiet” life when
+they were at peace with others. The government did not cause them problems.
+
+### What was godliness?
+
+See: (Godly) Godliness
+
+### How did a person live with “dignity”?
+
+A person lived with “dignity”(σεμνότης/g4587) when they lived in a way that others respected. That is,
+Christians and non-Christians thought the things they did were good for everyone.
+
+### Why did Paul write that he  “desires all people to be saved”?
+
+Many people in Ephesus thought that only the Jewish people were saved from sinning. Certain people
+taught only the most spiritual people could be saved from sinning. This is not true. Paul wanted Timothy to
+know God did not save only certain groups of people. God wants all people to be saved from sinning.
+However, not every person wants to be saved from sinning.
+
+See: Spirit (Spiritual)
+
+### How did a person “come to the knowledge of the truth”?
+
+The truth about which Paul wrote was the gospel. People who “came to the knowledge of the truth” were
+people who believed in the gospel.
+
+See: Gospel
+
+## 2:5-7
+
+### Why did Paul write, “there is one God”?
+
+People thought there were many gods when Paul lived. However, in the Bible there is only “one God.” The
+Israelites knew there was only one God (see: Deuteronomy 6:4-5).
+
+### How is Jesus the “one mediator” between God and humans?
+
+Jesus is the mediator between God and humans because he died for people’s sinning. A
+“mediator”(μεσίτης/g3316) was a person who helped people with a conflict to be at peace with one another.
+Because of man’s sinning, God and man were separated. Jesus’ death and resurrection allowed for man to
+not be separated from God. Jesus was both God and human. This made him the perfect mediator between
+God and humans.
+
+See: Mediator; Resurrect (Resurrection); Sin; Atone (Atonement)
+
+### What did Paul mean that “Jesus...gave himself as a ransom for all”?
+
+Jesus gave himself as a ransom to God to be able to free people from the punishment of sinning (see:
+Romans 5:12-21). A “ransom”(ἀντίλυτρον/g0487) was a price paid to free someone from slavery. All
+humans are slaves to sin. That is, they cannot choose not to do the things that do not honor God. God must
+punish all sin. The price that needed to be paid for sinning was death (see: Romans 6:23). Therefore, Jesus
+paid this price of sin for every human when he died on the cross.
+
+### Why did Paul write, “a testimony at the right time”?
+
+The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus served as a “testimony” that God’s word was true. That is, it
+proved that what Jesus said about himself was true. Paul said this testimony was given “at the right time.”
+That meant God made a specific time for the gospel to be made known (see: Galatians 4:4-7).
+
+See: Resurrect (Resurrection); Gospel
+
+### What was a “herald”?
+
+Often, a ruler used someone to speak for him. This person was a herald. The herod told things to the ruler’s
+people. Paul wrote that God made Paul speak for God. He told all people the gospel.
+
+### What was an “apostle”?
+
+See: Apostle
+
+### Who were the “Gentiles”?
+
+See: Gentile
+
+### Why did Paul write, “in faith and truth”?
+
+Paul wrote “in faith and truth.” Scholars think Paul meant he taught the Gentiles about the faith and the
+truth. That is, he taught the Gentiles what they needed to know about Jesus and what was true.
+
+## 2:8-10
+
+### What did it mean to “lift up holy hands without anger or arguing”?
+
+Paul said, “lift up holy hands without anger or arguing.” Some scholars think Christians prayed standing
+with their arms and hands lifted up in front of them. The Jewish people also did this in the synagogues.
+These scholars think lifting “holy”(ὅσιος/g3741) hands meant Christians’ prayers were committed to God.
+They think this also meant that Christians were committed to doing the things that honor God. That is, this
+made their hands holy.
+Christians also prayed without “anger or arguing.” They did not want to have arguments and thoughts that
+did not honor God. They wanted to live a holy life. That is, they only wanted to do the things that honored
+God.
+
+See: Synagogue
+
+### What was “proper clothing”?
+
+Proper clothing meant that a woman wore clothes that were “modest”(αἰδώς/g0127). Paul did not want
+women to dress in a way that others would be looking at their clothes. For a women to wear modest clothes
+meant that she wore things that did not upset other people. Also she wore things that did not make men
+look at her in a sexual way. A woman using self-control in the things that she wore wanted to do the things
+that honored God instead of worrying about the things that other people thought about her.
+Advice to translators: When a man looks at a woman in a sexual way, he thinks about having sex with her
+and wants to have sex with her.
+
+See: Self-control
+
+### How did a woman clothe herself with “good works”?
+
+Paul used a metaphor. In the same way clothing is seen by other people, so good works are seen by other
+people also. Paul wanted women to worry about the things they did for God not about the things that they
+wore.
+
+## 2:11-15
+
+### Why did Paul write for women to, “learn in silence”?
+
+Some scholars think Paul did not allow women to speak when Christians gathered together to worship God.
+Other scholars think Paul taught women to be quiet while the Bible was being taught. This was so they
+could listen and learn what was being taught. These scholars think Paul used the word
+“silence”(ἡσυχία/g2271) in the same way that he used it when he spoke about praying for leaders. That is,
+so they might live a quiet and peaceful life (see: 2:2).
+
+See: Worship
+
+### How did a woman learn “with all submission”?
+
+Paul wanted women to submit to the teaching elders. These elders taught the truth of the Bible and
+corrected errors being taught.
+
+See: Submit (submission); Elder
+
+### Why was a woman not allowed to “teach or to exercise authority over a man”?
+
+Some scholars think Paul did not allow women to teach men about what the Bible taught while Christians
+were gathered together. These scholars also think Paul did not allow women to teach men about the things
+they needed to do to honor God while Christians gathered together.
+Other scholars think Paul allowed women to teach when Christians gathered together only if they did not
+try “exercise authority”(αὐθεντέω/g0831) over the men in the gathering. That is, the women did not need to
+tell the men how to know the scriptures. They did not need to take control of the elders in a gathering.
+
+See: Elder
+
+### Why did Paul write women “will be saved through bearing children”?
+
+Some scholars think Paul wrote about a promise made in Genesis. This was the promise that the a
+descendant of the woman would defeat Satan (see: Genesis 3:15). This promise was a prophecy of Jesus.
+Other scholars think the words meant that women, in general, would not die during childbirth. Other
+scholars think Paul wrote that women preserve humans by having more children.
+
+See: Satan (The Devil); Prophecy (Prophesy)