1 Timothy 2:1-8 - Instructions To Pray For All People
1 First of all then, I am urging that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered regularly for all men; 2 for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and peaceful life in all godliness an gravity. 3 For this is good and pleasing in the eyes of our Saviour God, 4 whose will it is that all men should be saved, and come into full knowledge of the truth.
5 For God is one; and one is mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom in behalf of all, to be attested in due time.
7 It was for this testimony that I myself was appointed a herald and apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), to be a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
8 My wish, then, is that in every place the men should offer prayer, lifting up holy hands, free from anger and disputation;