1 Timothy 1:1-13 ▼

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

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

3 As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy,

4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:

5 but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy:

6 from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking,

7 wishing to be teachers of the law, not knowing either what they are saying, or concerning what things they do affirm.

8 But we know that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully;

9 knowing 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,

10 for fornicators, for Sodomites, for kidnapers, for liars, for perjurers, and if any thing else is opposed to healthy teaching;

11 according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted.

12 I 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;

13 being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;