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1 Timothy

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1 Timothy 1 📜 📕 ↷

Paul's Greeting to Timothy

1 PAUL an Apostle of JESUS Christ according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and of Christ JESUS our hope:📜💬📚

2 To Timothee his beloved son in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ JESUS our Lord.📜💬📚

Correcting False Teachers

3 As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou shouldest denounce to certain not to teach otherwise,📜💬📚

4 nor to attend to fables and genealogies having no end: which minister questions rather than the edifying of God which is in faith.📜💬📚

5 But the end of the precept is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and a faith not feigned.📜💬📚

6 From the which things certain straying, are turned into vain-talk,📜💬📚

7 desirous to be doctors of the Law, not understanding neither what things they speak, nor of what they affirm.📜💬📚

8 But we know that the Law is good, if a man use it lawfully:📜💬📚

Law Is for Sinners like Killers, Sodomites, Liars

9 knowing this, that the Law is not made to the just man, but to the unjust, & disobedient, to the impious & sinners, to the wicked & contaminate, to killers of fathers & killers of mothers, to murderers,📜💬📚

10 to fornicators, to liers with mankind, to man-stealers, to liars, to perjured persons, and what other thing soever is contrary to sound doctrine,📜💬📚

11 which is according to the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which is committed to me.📜💬📚

God's Grace to Paul

12 I give him thanks which hath strengthened me, Christ JESUS our Lord, because he hath esteemed me faithful, putting me in the ministry.📜💬📚

13 Who before was blasphemous and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it being ignorant in incredulity.📜💬📚

14 And the grace of our Lord over-abounded with faith and love, which is in Christ JESUS.📜💬📚

15 A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ JESUS came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.📜💬📚

16 But therefore have I obtained mercy: that in me first of all, Christ JESUS might shew all patience, to the information of them that shall believe on him unto life everlasting.📜💬📚

17 And to the King of the worlds, immortal, invisible, only God, honour & glory for ever and ever. Amen.📜💬📚

18 This precept I commend to thee, o Timothee: according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,📜💬📚

19 having faith and a good conscience, which certain repelling have made shipwreck about the faith.📜💬📚