1 Timothy 2:1-8 - Instructions To Pray For All People
1 I exhort you therefore, above all things, to present supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving for all men: 2 for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in the practice of all piety and virtue; 3 for such offices are commendable, and agreeable to God our saviour, 4 who wills that all men be saved, by embracing the truth.
5 for there is but one God, and but one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind: this is what was to be promulg'd in due time:
7 for this I was establish'd a herald and an apostle, I speak the truth without disguise, a doctor to instruct the Gentiles in the true faith.
8 I direct therefore that the men pray in publick and private, lifting up their hands to heaven with innocence, charity, and composure.