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

³ As I exhorted thee to stay at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain persons not to teach other doctrine, ⁴ nor attend to fables and endless genealogies, which occasion debates, rather than pious edification in the faith: ⁵ so do, and acquaint them that the end of that charge is charity, out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned: ⁶ from which some having swerved are turned aside to vain discourses; ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, though they neither understand what they say, nor what things they assert. ⁸ But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; ⁹ knowing this, that a law does not lie against a righteous person, but against the lawless and unruly, the impious and wicked, the unholy and profane, ¹⁰ parricides, murderers, whoremongers, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, false-swearers, and if there be any thing else contrary to that sound doctrine, ¹¹ which is according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I was intrusted.