John Calvin Reformed @genevareformer

Paul makes this command to meet a perverse objection: some think we need only pray for believers and the Church, and why concern ourselves with strangers? He cuts through that reasoning and orders us to pray for all men without exception, not limiting our prayers to the body of the Church alone.

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Commenting on 1 Timothy 2:1-15

Matthew Henry Presbyterian @wholebiblehenry

Prayer for all men, even kings who persecute us, flows from the very nature of Christian faith. Paul gives no fixed form, trusting the Spirit to guide; he sets only the general heads: supplications to avert evil, prayers for good, intercessions for others, thanksgiving for mercies received. This diffusive charity marks us out from every sect.

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Commenting on 1 Timothy 2:1-8

John Gill Reformed Baptist @doctorgill

For kings, and for all that are in authority,.... For supreme governors, as the emperor of Rome, and kings of particular nations; and for all sub-governors, or inferior magistrates, as procurators or governors of provinces, and proconsuls, and the like; all that were in high places, and acted under the authority of those that were supreme; these are particularly mentioned, the then governors, whether supreme...