LO - I Timothy - 1

1:1  Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God, our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope;

1:2  to Timothy, my own son in the faith: Favor, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

1:3  As I entreated you to continue in Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you may charge some not to teach differently,

1:4  nor to give heed to fables, and endless genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than godly edification, which is through faith;

1:5  (now the end of the charge is love, from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and unfeigned faith:

1:6  from which things some having swerved, have turned aside to foolish talking;)

1:7  desiring to be teachers of the law, neither understanding what they say, nor the things about which they are so positive.

1:8  We know, indeed, that the law is good, if one use it lawfully;

1:9  knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disorderly, the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and profane; murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, manslayers,

1:10  fornicators, sodomites, manstealers, liars, false swearers, and if any other thing be opposite to wholesome doctrine;

1:11  according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted.

1:12  Now, I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has qualified me, that he reckoned me faithful, appointing me to the ministry,

1:13  who was formerly a defamer, and a persecutor, and an injurious person. But I received mercy, because I acted ignorantly in unbelief;

1:14  and the favor of the Lord has superabounded, with the faith and love which is by Christ Jesus.

1:15  This saying is true, and worthy of all reception, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

1:16  However, for this cause I received mercy, that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them who should believe on him, in order to everlasting life.

1:17  Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God alone, be honor and glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

1:18  This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before you, concerning you, that we may carry on, through them, the good warfare;

1:19  holding fast faith and a good conscience; which some have put away, with respect to the faith, having made shipwreck:

1:20  of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to the adversary, that they might be taught by chastisement not to blaspheme.