1 Timothy 1:3-11 - Instructions For Timothy In Ephesus

³ As, on going into Macedonia, I besought you to remain in Ephesus, that you might charge some that they teach no other thing, ⁴ nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which produce disputes rather than godly edification, which is in faith; ⁵ (Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and out of a good conscience, and out of faith unfeigned: ⁶ which things some not having aimed at, have turned aside to idle disputation, ⁷ desiring to be teachers of law, though under standing neither what they say nor of what they boldly affirm. ⁸ But we know that the law is good, if any one use it lawfully; ⁹ knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and for scorners, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man-slayers, ¹⁰ for lewd persons, for sodomites, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and for whatever other thing is opposed to sound teaching, ¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been intrusted to me.