1 Timothy 1

¹Paul, an apostle of the Lord Christ Jesus according to the command of God our Savior and of the Lord Christ Jesus our hope.

²To Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

³As I urged you to remain in Ephesus while I was going to Macedonia, so that you might charge certain ones not to teach a different doctrine.

⁴nor to give heed to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to speculations rather than the stewardship of God that is in faith.

⁵But the goal of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith,

⁶from which some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to meaningless talk,

⁷desiring to be teachers of the Law, though they understand neither what they are saying nor the things about which they make confident assertions.

⁸Now we know that the law is good, if anyone uses it lawfully,

⁹knowing this, that the law is not laid down for a righteous person, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers and those who kill their mothers, for murderers,

¹⁰for the sexually immoral, for practicing homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars, for perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching,

¹¹according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I myself was entrusted.

¹²And I am grateful to the One who strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful, appointing me to service,

¹³though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man; but I was shown mercy, because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

¹⁴And the grace of our Lord overflowed all the more, with faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

¹⁵Faithful is the saying and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I myself am foremost;

¹⁶But for this reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Christ Jesus might display his complete patience as a pattern for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.

¹⁷Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory unto the ages of the ages, amen.

¹⁸This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, so that by them you may wage the good warfare,

¹⁹holding faith and a good conscience, which some, having thrust away, made shipwreck concerning the faith,

²⁰among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.