Thematic Bible
1 Timothy 1:1 (show verse)
From Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the appointment of God, our Savior, and Christ Jesus, our Hope.
1 Timothy 1:2 (show verse)
To Timothy, my true Child in the Faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace.
1 Timothy 1:3 (show verse)
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,
1 Timothy 1:4 (show verse)
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.
1 Timothy 1:5 (show verse)
The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
1 Timothy 1:6 (show verse)
And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects.
1 Timothy 1:7 (show verse)
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.
1 Timothy 1:8 (show verse)
We know, of course, that the Law is excellent, when used legitimately,
1 Timothy 1:9 (show verse)
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,
1 Timothy 1:10 (show verse)
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--
1 Timothy 1:11 (show verse)
as is taught in the glorious Good News of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted.
1 Timothy 1:12 (show verse)
I am thankful to Christ Jesus, our Lord, who has been my strength, for showing that he thought me worthy of trust by appointing me to his ministry,
1 Timothy 1:13 (show verse)
though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;
1 Timothy 1:14 (show verse)
and the loving-kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 1:15 (show verse)
How true the saying is, and worthy of the fullest acceptance, that 'Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners'! And there is no greater sinner than I!
1 Timothy 1:16 (show verse)
Yet mercy was shown me for the express purpose that Christ Jesus might exhibit in my case, beyond all others, his exhaustless patience, as an example for those who were afterwards to believe on him and attain Immortal Life.
1 Timothy 1:17 (show verse)
To the Immortal King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be ascribed honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:18 (show verse)
This, then, is the charge that I lay upon you, Timothy, my Child, in accordance with what was predicted of you--Fight the good fight in the spirit of those predictions,
1 Timothy 1:19 (show verse)
with faith, and with a clear conscience; and it is because they have thrust this aside, that, as regards the Faith, some have wrecked their lives.
1 Timothy 1:20 (show verse)
Hymenaeus and Alexander are instances--the men whom I delivered over to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.