Thematic Bible
1 Timothy 1:1 (show verse)
PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope,
1 Timothy 1:2 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]
1 Timothy 1:5 (show verse)
But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,
1 Timothy 1:6 (show verse)
which some having missed turned aside to vain words,
1 Timothy 1:7 (show verse)
desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.
1 Timothy 1:8 (show verse)
But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully;
1 Timothy 1:9 (show verse)
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,
1 Timothy 1:10 (show verse)
fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
1 Timothy 1:11 (show verse)
according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.
1 Timothy 1:12 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 1:15 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen.
1 Timothy 1:18 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;
1 Timothy 1:20 (show verse)
of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.