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

³ At my departure from Macedonia, I advised you to stay at Ephesus in order to charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, ⁴ or trouble their heads with fables and endless genealogies, which rather promote disputes than the gospel-dispensation: ⁵ such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief: ⁶ for want of which, some have lost themselves in frivolous disputes, ⁷ pretending to be doctors of the law, tho' they neither understand what they advance, nor upon what it is founded. ⁸ I own that the law is good, if a man make a right use of it: ⁹ it being plain, that the law was not design'd against the just, but against the lawless and refractory, against irreligion and vice, impiety and prophaneness, parricide and man-slaughter, ¹⁰ against licentiousness and unnatural passion, against men-stealers, lyars, perjured persons, and every thing that is inconsistent ¹¹ with the salutary doctrine of the gospel of immortality, which the blessed God committed to my trust.