Discovery Box1 Timothy 2:8 
Context2:8 So I want the men 1 to pray 2 in every place, lifting up holy hands 3 without anger or dispute.
1 Timothy 5:1
ContextInstructions about Specific Groups
5:1 Do not address an older man harshly 4 but appeal to him as a father. Speak to younger men as brothers, 5
1 tn The word translated “men” here (ἀνήρ, anhr) refers to adult males, not people in general. Note the command given to “the women” in v. 9.
2 sn To pray. In this verse Paul resumes and concludes the section about prayer begun in 2:1-2. 1 Tim 2:3-7 described God’s concern for all people as the motive for such prayer.
3 sn Paul uses a common ancient posture in prayer (lifting up holy hands) as a figure of speech for offering requests from a holy life (without anger or dispute).
4 tn Or “Do not speak harshly to an older man.”
5 tn No verb “speak” is stated in this clause, but it continues the sense of the preceding.
