1 Timothy 1 DBY
Summary: Paul charges Timothy, left in Ephesus, to oppose certain teachers who promote myths and endless genealogies instead of the love that flows from a pure heart, good conscience, and sincere faith. He explains that the law is good when used lawfully, aimed not at the righteous but at lawbreakers of every kind, and rightly summarized by the gospel entrusted to him. Paul recalls his own former life as a blasphemer and persecutor shown mercy so that in him Christ might display perfect patience as an example, breaking into a doxology, "to the King of ages...be honor and glory forever" (v. 17). He closes by charging Timothy to wage the good warfare, naming Hymenaeus and Alexander as examples of those who made shipwreck of their faith.
1Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to [the] command ofGod our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope,
2to Timotheus, [my] true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, fromGod our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
3Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, [when I was] going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines,
4nor to turn their minds to fables and interminable genealogies, which bring questionings rather than [further]God's dispensation, which [is] in faith.
5But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
6which [things] some having missed, have turned aside to vain discourse,
7desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they [so] strenuously affirm.
8Now we know that the law [is] good if any one uses it lawfully,
9knowing this, that law has not its application to a righteous person, but to [the] lawless and insubordinate, to [the] impious and sinful, to [the] unholy and profane, to smiters of fathers and smiters of mothers; to murderers,
10fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching,
11according to the glad tidings of the glory of the blessedGod, with which I have been entrusted.
12[And] I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him
13who before was a blasphemer and persecutor, and an insolent overbearing [man]: but mercy was shewn me because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief.
14But the grace of our Lord surpassingly over-abounded with faith and love, which [is] in Christ Jesus.
15Faithful [is] the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am [the] first.
16But 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.
17Now to the King of the ages, [the] incorruptible, invisible, onlyGod, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.
18This 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,
19maintaining faith and a good conscience; which [last] some, having put away, have made shipwreck as to faith;
20of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may be taught by discipline not to blaspheme.
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