Chapter 1

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus our hope: ²To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord. ³As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise, ⁴Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies: which furnish questions rather than the edification of God, which is in faith. ⁵Now the end of the commandment is charity, from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith. ⁶From which things some going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling: ⁷Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm. ⁸But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully: ⁹Knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly, and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, ¹⁰For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine, ¹¹Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which hath been committed to my trust. ¹²I give thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry; ¹³Who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. ¹⁴Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus. ¹⁵A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief. ¹⁶But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting. ¹⁷Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen. ¹⁸This precept I commend to thee, O son Timothy; according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare, ¹⁹Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith. ²⁰Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.