to Timothy, my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, peace from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord.

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which has been intrusted to me.

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, because he counted me faithful, and put me into the ministry;

me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:

But for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all long-suffering, for an example to those who might afterward believe on him in order to life eternal.

This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, in accordance with the preceding prophecies concerning you, that by them you may war the good warfare,

whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to revile.

for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and gravity.

but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them, that your advancement may be manifest in all things.

These things also give in charge, that they may be blameless.

If any believing man or woman has widows, let him or her relieve them, and let not the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.

Those who sin rebuke before all, that the rest also may fear.

that you keep this commandment, so that you may be spotless and blameless till the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.