1 Timothy 1:3-11 - Instructions For Timothy In Ephesus
3 As I exhorted you to continue in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that you might charge certain ones not to teach a different doctrine, 4 nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies; which, indeed, occasion disputes rather than God's dispensation, which is in faith, so do I now. 5 But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and of faith unfeigned; 6 which some having missed turned aside to vain talk; 7 wishing to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm. 8 But we know that the law is good, if one use it lawfully; 9 knowing this, that law is not enacted for a righteous man, but for lawless and unruly ones, for ungodly and sinful, for unholy and profane, for patricides, and matricides, for man-slayers, 10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for man-stealers, for liars, for false swearers; and whatever else is contrary to healthful teaching; 11 according to the Gospel of the glory of the Blessed God, with which I was entrusted.