to Timotheus, my true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him

who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing man: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.

But for this reason mercy was shewn me, that in me, the first, Jesus Christ might display the whole long-suffering, for a delineation of those about to believe on him to life eternal.

This charge, my child Timotheus, I commit to thee, according to the prophecies as to thee preceding, in order that thou mightest war by them the good warfare,

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.

for kings and all that are in dignity, that we may lead a quiet and tranquil life in all piety and gravity;

not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.

But it is necessary that he should have also a good testimony from those without, that he may fall not into reproach and the snare of the devil.

Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.

And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.

If any believing man or woman have widows, let them impart relief to them, and let not the assembly be charged, that it may impart relief to those that are widows indeed.

Those that sin convict before all, that the rest also may have fear.

laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of what is really life.