The Bible

1 Timothy Chapter 1

¹Paul, an apostle of AnointedOne Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and AnointedOne Jesus our hope; ²to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and AnointedOne Jesus our Lord.

³As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine, ⁴neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God's stewardship, which is in faith - ⁵but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith, ⁶from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking, ⁷desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

⁸But we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, ⁹as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, ¹⁰for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine, ¹¹according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

¹²I thank him who enabled me, AnointedOne Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service; ¹³although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

¹⁴The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in AnointedOne Jesus.

¹⁵The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that AnointedOne Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

¹⁶However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus AnointedOne might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

¹⁷Now to the King eternal, permanent, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹⁸I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare, ¹⁹holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith, ²⁰of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.