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

³ I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines, ⁴ nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the Faith. ⁵ The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. ⁶ And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects. ⁷ They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently. ⁸ We know, of course, that the Law is excellent, when used legitimately, ⁹ by one who recognizes that laws were not made for good men, but for the lawless and disorderly, for irreligious and wicked people, for those who are irreverent and profane, for those who ill-treat their fathers or mothers, for murderers, ¹⁰ for the immoral, for people guilty of sodomy, for slave-dealers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is opposed to sound Christian teaching-- ¹¹ as is taught in the glorious Good News of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted.