1 Timothy 1:1-13 ▼

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to a command of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our Hope,

2 to Timothy, a true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

3 As I exhorted you to continue in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that you might charge certain ones not to teach a different doctrine,

4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies; which, indeed, occasion disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, so do I now .

5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and of faith unfeigned;

6 which some having missed turned aside to vain talk;

7 wishing to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

8 But we know that the law is good, if one use it lawfully;

9 knowing this, that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for lawless and unruly ones , for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for patricides, and matricides, for man-slayers,

10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for man-stealers, for liars, for false swearers; and whatever else is contrary to healthful teaching;

11 according to the Gospel of the glory of the Blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

12 I have thanks for Him Who empowered me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because He accounted me faithful, putting me into His service,

13 though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy, because I, being ignorant, did it in unbelief;