1 Timothy 2:3

New Century Version

This is good, and it pleases God our Savior,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is good, and it pleases God our Savior,

King James Version (1611)
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour,

King James Version
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

English Standard Version
This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

New American Standard Bible
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

Legacy Standard Bible
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

Berean Standard Bible
This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

Contemporary English Version
This kind of prayer is good, and it pleases God our Savior.

Complete Jewish Bible
This is what God, our Deliverer, regards as good; this is what meets his approval.

Darby Translation
for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God,

Easy-to-Read Version
This is good and pleases God our Savior.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For this is good & acceptable in the sight of God our Sauiour,

George Lamsa Translation
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour:

Good News Translation
This is good and it pleases God our Savior,

Lexham English Bible
This is good and acceptable before God our Savior,

Literal Translation
For this is good and acceptable before God our Savior,

Amplified Bible
This [kind of praying] is good and acceptable and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior,

American Standard Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

Bible in Basic English
This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;

Hebrew Names Version
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior;

International Standard Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,Romans 12:2; 1 Timothy 1:1; 5:4; 2 Timothy 1:9;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For this is good and acceptable before Aloha our Saviour;

Murdock Translation
For this is good and acceptable before God our life-giver;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For that is good and accepted in the syght of God our sauiour,

English Revised Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

World English Bible
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God, our Savior;

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

Weymouth's New Testament
This is right, and is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For this thing is good and acceptid bifor God,

Update Bible Version
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

Webster's Bible Translation
For this [is] good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

New English Translation
Such prayer for all is good and welcomed before God our Savior,

New King James Version
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

New Living Translation
This is good and pleases God our Savior,

New Life Bible
It is good when you pray like this. It pleases God Who is the One Who saves.

New Revised Standard
This is right and is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, is comely and acceptable before our Saviour God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

Revised Standard Version
This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For that is good and accepted in the sight of god oure savioure

Young's Literal Translation
for this [is] right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For that is good and accepted in ye sighte of God oure Sauioure,

Mace New Testament (1729)
for such offices are commendable, and agreeable to God our saviour,

Simplified Cowboy Version
These two things are what make the Boss smile.

Contextual Overview

¹ First, I tell you to pray for all people, asking God for what they need and being thankful to him. ² Pray for rulers and for all who have authority so that we can have quiet and peaceful lives full of worship and respect for God. ³ This is good, and it pleases God our Savior, ⁴ who wants all people to be saved and to know the truth. ⁵ There is one God and one mediator so that human beings can reach God. That way is through Christ Jesus, who is himself human. ⁶ He gave himself as a payment to free all people. He is proof that came at the right time. ⁷ That is why I was chosen to tell the Good News and to be an apostle. (I am telling the truth; I am not lying.) I was chosen to teach those who are not Jews to believe and to know the truth. ⁸ So, I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up their hands in a holy manner, without anger and arguments.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this: 1 Timothy 5:4, Romans 12:1, Romans 12:2, Romans 14:18, Ephesians 5:9, Ephesians 5:10, Philippians 1:11, Philippians 4:18, Colossians 1:10, 1 Thessalonians 4:1, Hebrews 13:16, 1 Peter 2:5, 1 Peter 2:20

God: 1 Timothy 1:1, Isaiah 45:21, Luke 1:47, 2 Timothy 1:9

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 3:9 - fear John 5:34 - that Acts 4:19 - Whether 1 Thessalonians 1:3 - in the Titus 1:3 - God Titus 3:4 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.

Genesis 2:3
God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day, because on that day he rested from all the work he had done in creating the world.

Genesis 2:4
This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God first made the earth and the sky,

Genesis 2:7
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living person.

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.

Genesis 2:10
A river flowed through Eden and watered the garden. From there the river branched out to become four rivers.

Genesis 2:11
The first river, named Pishon, flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
The gold of that land is excellent. Bdellium and onyx are also found there.

Genesis 2:13
The second river, named Gihon, flows around the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2:14
The third river, named Tigris, flows out of Assyria toward the east. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour. Not only to live peaceably and quietly under the government men are, since that is the ordination of God, and to live soberly, righteously, and godly, which his grace teaches; but to pray for all sorts of men, and for those who are set in the highest place of government, even though enemies and persecutors: this is good in itself, and in the sight of an omniscient God, who sees not as man seeth; and it is acceptable unto him through Jesus Christ, by whom every sacrifice of prayer or praise is so; for by God our Saviour is meant God the Father, who is the Saviour of all men, in a way of providence, and the Saviour of all the elect in a way of special grace; :-.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this is good and acceptable - That is, it is good and acceptable to God that we should pray for all people. The reason is, that he desires their salvation, and hence it is agreeable to him that we should pray for it. If there were no provision made for their salvation, or if he was unwilling that they should be saved, it could not be agreeable to him that we should offer prayer for them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Timothy 2:3. This is good and acceptable — Prayer for all legally constituted authorities is good in itself, because useful to ourselves and to the public at large, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; and this is its highest sanction and its highest character: it is good; it is well pleasing to God.