1 Timothy 1

Anderson^{(i) 1} PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the appointment of God our Savior, and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope, ² to Timothy, my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord. ³ As, on going into Macedonia, I besought you to remain in Ephesus, that you might charge some that they teach no other thing, ⁴ nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith; ⁵ (Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned: ⁶ which things some not having aimed at, have turned aside to idle disputation, ⁷ desiring to be teachers of law, though under standing neither what they say nor of what they boldly affirm. ⁸ But we know that the law is good, if any one use it lawfully; ⁹ knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and for scorners, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers, ¹⁰ for lewd persons, for sodomites, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and for whatever other thing is opposed to sound teaching, ¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been intrusted to me. ¹² And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, because he counted me faithful, and put me into the ministry; ¹³ me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief: ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord was very abundant with faith, and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ Assuredly true and worthy of all acceptation is this saying: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. ¹⁶ But for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all long-suffering, for an example to those who might afterward believe on him in order to life eternal. ¹⁷ Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, be honor and glory from age to age. Amen.) ¹⁸ This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, in accordance with the preceding prophecies concerning you, that by them you may war the good warfare, ¹⁹ holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust from them, as it respects faith have made shipwreck; of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, ²⁰ whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to revile.