Paul’s Greeting to Timothy
(2 Timothy 1:1–2)

1Paul, the apostle of Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Jesus Christ our hope;

2to Timothy, my beloved son in the faith. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

Correcting False Teachers
(Titus 1:10–16)

3As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy, 4nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith: 5but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy: 6from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking, 7wishing to be teachers of the law, not knowing either what they are saying, or concerning what things they do affirm.

8But we know that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully; 9knowing this, that the law is not made for the righteous, but for the unrighteous and disorderly, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and the profane, for patricides, matricides and homocides, 10for fornicators, for Sodomites, for kidnapers, for liars, for perjurers, and if any thing else is opposed to healthy teaching; 11according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted.

God’s Grace to Paul

12I give thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord, the one having filled me up with dynamite, because he considered me faithful, having put me in the ministry; 13being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant; 14but the grace of our Lord with faith and the divine love which is in Christ Jesus superabounded. 15It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief: 16but on this account I obtained mercy, in order that Jesus Christ might in me the chief show forth all longsuffering, for an example of those about to believe on him unto eternal life. 17But to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, be honor and glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

18This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same; 19having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith; 20of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.