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

³ As I exhorted thee to abide at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin certain persons to introduce no different doctrine, ⁴ nor to attend to fables and endless genealogies, which give occasion to disputes rather than godly edification, which is by faith; [so do]. ⁵ For the end of the commandment is love out of a clean heart, and good conscience, and faith unfeigned: ⁶ from which some, having swerved, have turned aside to vain babbling; ⁷ affecting to be doctors of the law, though they underhand neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. ⁸ But we know that the law is good if a man use it according to its institution; ⁹ knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the lawless and disorderly, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for men-slayers, ¹⁰ for whoremongers, for sodomites, for stealers of men, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing which is contrary to sound doctrine, ¹¹ according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been put in trust.