1 Timothy 1:18–2:8

18  This 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, 19  maintaining faith and a good conscience; which last some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith; 20  of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.

Chapter 2

1  I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings be made for all men; 2  for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity; 3  for this is good and acceptable before our Saviour God, 4  who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. 5  For God is one, and the mediator of God and men one, the man Christ Jesus, 6  who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times; 7  to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak the truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth. 8  I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.