1 Timothy 1

¹Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ, according to [the] command of God our Saviour, and of Christ Jesus our hope,

²to Timotheus, [my] true child in faith: grace, mercy, peace, from God 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 blessed God, 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