1 Timothy 2:1

Plain English Version

I’m writing now about your church meetings. The first thing I want to tell you is that you have to pray for all sorts of people. Ask God to help people that have problems. Tell him all about them, and ask him to help them. Always thank God too, for everything that he does for people.

Cross References

Acts 17:30

You see, at first people didn’t know about God, but at that time he didn’t worry about it. Now it is different. Now he says to all of us, that we have to turn around and stop doing bad things.

Romans 1:8

The first thing I want to do is to say thank you to my God. I can talk to God and say thank you because Jesus Christ made us God’s friends. I thank God for all of you Christian mob there. You really believe in Jesus now, and people everywhere in the world are talking about how you really trust in Jesus.

Romans 6:17

Actually, you used to do bad things all the time, but now you have made God your boss, and you really want to do whatever he wants. I thank God for that.

1 Corinthians 15:3

You know, God told me that message, and then I taught it to you. And, you know, a long time ago, God got his men to write about some of those things, and they are in God’s book. Now I’ll tell you the important part of that message again. Everybody did bad things. We are all bad, but Jesus Christ died instead of us. That message is in God’s book.

Ephesians 3:13

So when some people make trouble for me, don’t let that worry you. I tell you God’s word, and they don’t like it, so they make trouble for me. But don’t worry. I want you to be strong. You can always feel happy whenever they make trouble for me.

Ephesians 5:20

Remember our leader, Jesus Christ, and always thank God, our father, for everything.

Ephesians 6:18

And always pray in the way that God’s spirit leads you. Pray about every problem, and pray in all sorts of ways, and ask God for whatever you need. So always keep on praying for all God’s people.

Philippians 1:3

Every time I think about you mob, I thank God for you.

Philippians 4:6

Don’t worry about anything, but pray to God and ask him for everything you need. And always thank God for what he has already done.

1 Thessalonians 3:12

And we want Jesus to get you to love each other and to love other people, even more than you do now. We want you to love people just as much as we love you.

2 Thessalonians 1:3

Christian friends, we know that you are learning to trust God more and more, and you are loving each other more and more. So we have to thank God for you all the time.

1 Timothy 2:4

and he wants to save everybody. He wants everybody to know the true message about Jesus.

1 Timothy 5:5

But some widows are all alone and haven’t got any family to look after them. Some of those widows trust God to take care of them. They keep on praying and asking God for whatever they need.

2 Timothy 2:24

And anyone that works for God can’t get into fights, but they have to be good to everybody. So don’t get angry with people that give you trouble. You have to teach people in a good way.

Titus 2:11

It’s like this. God has shown us that he is very good to us. He made a way to save everybody.

Titus 3:2

And tell them not to say bad things about other people. They have to be happy with each other, and not fight or argue. They have to go easy on other people.

James 5:16

So whenever you go wrong and do bad things, don’t try to say that you are still good. No. Tell each other the true story about the bad things that you did. Then you can pray for each other, so that God can make you good again. Whenever a good person prays to God about something, then God uses his power and does whatever that good person asks for.