1 Timothy
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| 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the direction of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus, our hope, 2 to Timothy my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. 3 This is why, when I was going into Macedonia, that I urged you to remain in Ephesus, so that you might warn certain ones not to teach other doctrines, 4 nor to give heed to myths and endless genealogies which bring meaningless controversies, rather than the stewardship of God, which is inside of faith. • 5 For the goal of our instruction is love out from a pure heart, out from a good consciousness, and out from a faith that is not fake, 6 from which some, having missed the point, have turned away to meaningless talk, 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, but not understanding what they are saying nor anything concerning what they so confidently assert. 8 We are aware, now, that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully. • 9 We know that law is not enacted for the just, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the disrespectful and sinful, for the unclean and false intruders, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 for the sexually immoral, homosexuals, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and anything else to which healthy teaching is opposed, 11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted. [a] 12 I am thankful for the One who has empowered me, Christ Jesus our Lord, that He has considered me faithful, having placed and set me forth into service, 13 though I was once a slanderer, a persecutor, and violent; but, I was given mercy, because I was ignorant and did all that in unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord was abundantly multiplied to me then, with the faith and love that are inside of Christ Jesus. • 15 This saying is trustworthy and worthy of all acceptance, that “Christ Jesus came into the world-cosmos to actively save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.” 16 But through this I was given mercy, that in me, the worst, Jesus Christ might make fully evident His complete longsuffering as an example for those about to believe upon Him into age-unfolding life. 17 Now to the King of the ages, invisible and unable to decay, to God alone be honor and glory into the seasons of the ages. Let it be so – it is so. 18 This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the guiding prophecies upon you, that you might fight the good warfare by them, 19 possessing faith and a good consciousness, which some, having refused concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, 20 among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given over to Satan that they might learn not to speak accusation. [b) |
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