1 Timothy 1

Chapter 1

¹Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the command of God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope, ²to Timotheus, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. ³Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, when I was going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines, ⁴nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than further God’s dispensation, which is in faith.

⁵But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith; ⁶which things some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse, ⁷desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they so strenuously affirm. ⁸Now we know that the law is good if any one uses it lawfully, ⁹knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to the lawless and insubordinate, to the impious and sinful, to the unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers, ¹⁰fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching, ¹¹according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.

¹²And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him ¹³who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief. ¹⁴But the grace of our Lord surpassingly over-abounded with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵Faithful is the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the first. ¹⁶But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, the first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal. ¹⁷Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.

¹⁸This charge, my child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare, ¹⁹maintaining faith and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith; ²⁰of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.