Thematic Bible

1 Timothy 1:1

PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope,

1 Timothy 1:2

to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 Timothy 1:3

As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine,

1 Timothy 1:4

nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]

1 Timothy 1:5

But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,

1 Timothy 1:6

which some having missed turned aside to vain words,

1 Timothy 1:7

desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.

1 Timothy 1:8

But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully;

1 Timothy 1:9

knowing this, that a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and disorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men,

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fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

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according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.

1 Timothy 1:12

And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,

1 Timothy 1:13

who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief;

1 Timothy 1:14

and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 1:15

The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief;

1 Timothy 1:16

but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal.

1 Timothy 1:17

And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen.

1 Timothy 1:18

This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service,

1 Timothy 1:19

having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;

1 Timothy 1:20

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.