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

³ Even as I exhorted thee to remain in Ephesus, when I was journeying into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some - ⁴ Not to be teaching otherwise, nor yet to be giving heed to stories and endless genealogies, - the which, bring, arguings, rather than that stewardship of God which is with faith; - ⁵ Now, the end of the charge, is love - out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned, - ⁶ Which some, missing, have turned them aside unto idle talk, ⁷ Desiring to be law-teachers, - not understanding, either what they say or whereof they confidently affirm. ⁸ Now we know that, excellent, is the law, if one put it to a lawful use: - ⁹ Knowing this - that, to a righteous man, law, doth not apply, but to the lawless and insubordinate, ungodly and sinful, irreligious and profane, smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers, murderers, ¹⁰ fornicators, sodomites, man-stealers, liars, false- swearers, - and, if anything else, unto the healthful teaching, is opposed; - ¹¹ According to the glad-message of the glory of the happy God, with which entrusted am, I.