1 Timothy 1:1-13 ▼

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

2 To Timothy, my genuine child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

3 Just as I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus in my going to Macedonia, so that you might charge certain ones not to teach other doctrines

4 nor to give heed to myths and endless genealogies, which cause controversies rather than the stewardship of God that is in faith.

5 Now the goal of our charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith,

6 from which certain ones, having missed the mark, turned aside to empty talk,

7 wanting to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor that about which they confidently assert.

8 Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,

9 knowing this, that law is not laid for a righteous one, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for slayers of man,

10 for the sexually immoral, homosexuals, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and if anything other is opposed to being sound in the teaching,

11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

12 I have gratitude to the One having empowered me, Christ Jesus our Lord, that He esteemed me faithful, having put me to service,

13 formerly being a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and insolent; but I was shown mercy, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief.