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7 pretending to be doctors of the law, tho' they neither understand what they advance, nor upon what it is founded. 8 I own that the law is good, if a man make a right use of it: 9 it being plain, that the law was not design'd against the just, but against the lawless and refractory, against irreligion and vice, impiety and prophaneness, parricide and man-slaughter, 10 against licentiousness and unnatural passion, against men-stealers, lyars, perjured persons, and every thing that is inconsistent 11 with the salutary doctrine of the gospel of immortality, which the blessed God committed to my trust. 12 I offer thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord, who qualified me for the ministry he has plac'd me in, for having appointed me to such a trust, 13 who was before a blasphemer, and a violent persecutor; but I obtained mercy, because I acted thro' ignorance in incrudelity. 14 but the favour of our Lord display'd itself by that faith and charity, which was wrought in me by Jesus Christ. 15 it is a proposition worthy to be believ'd, and be embrac'd by all, that Jesus Christ is come into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the greatest. 16 however I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might demonstrate the greatness of his clemency, by making me an eminent instance of it to those who should hereafter believe in him, in order to eternal life. 17 to the king of the world, the immortal, invisible, and the only God be honour and glory to endless ages, amen. 18 This charge, my son Timothy, I recommend to you, agreeably to the prophetic gifts heretofore conferr'd on you, by virtue of which you might carry on a successful warfare, 19 assisted by faith and a good conscience: for some having discarded the one, have entirely lost the other. 20 Hymeneus and Alexander are of that number, whom I have deliver'd to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. 1 Timothy 1:7-20, Mace New Testament. Public domain.
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