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

³ As I asked you when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus and warn certain individuals against teaching novelties ⁴ and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith. ⁵ Whereas the aim of the Christian discipline is the love that springs from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith. ⁶ Certain individuals have failed here by turning to empty argument; ⁷ doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp. ⁸ I am quite aware that 'the Law is admirable' ??provided that one makes a lawful use of it; ⁹ he must keep in mind that no law is ever made for honest people but for the lawless and the insubordinate, for the impious and the sinful, for the irreverent and the profane, for parricides and matricides, murderers, ¹⁰ immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine ¹¹ as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.