1 Timothy 2:8

I want men everywhere to pray. White takes this to mean: "That the men should conduct public worship." But this would force "everywhere" to mean "in places of public worship." MacKnight writes: "Everywhere By this precept, the apostle condemned the superstitious notion both of the Jews and Gentiles, who fancied that prayers offered in the temples were more acceptable to God than prayers offered anywhere else. - The worshipping of God in all places was foretold as the peculiar glory of the gospel dispensation. Malachi 1:11. "F. I. Stanley writes: "The rest of the chapter is used in telling Timothy how to teach men to lead the kind of life that Christian men and women should live. Frankly, it has nothing to do with the assembly [public worship], but with the daily lives of men and women." Can lift up their hands. Ancient Christians often prayed with their hands held above their heads, with their eyes looking up toward the sky. Without anger or argument. See 1 Timothy 1:3-4 and notes.