1 Timothy

Sawyer^{(i) 1 (1:1)} PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope, ² to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ^{3 (1:2)} As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, ⁴ nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.] ⁵ But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned, ⁶ which some having missed turned aside to vain words, ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions. ⁸ But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully; ⁹ knowing this, that a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and disorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men, ¹⁰ fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, ¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted. ¹² And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry, ¹³ who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief; ¹⁴ and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵ The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief; ¹⁶ but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal. ¹⁷ And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen. ^{18 (1:3)} This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service, ¹⁹ having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith; ²⁰ of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.