1 Timothy 1

¹Pavl an Apostle of Iesvs Christ, by the commandement of God our Sauiour, and of our Lord Iesus Christ our hope,

²Vnto Timotheus my naturall sonne in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father, and from Christ Iesus our Lord.

³As I besought thee to abide still in Ephesus, when I departed into Macedonia, so doe, that thou mayest warne some, that they teach none other doctrine,

⁴Neither that they giue heede to fables and genealogies which are endles, which breede questions rather then godly edifying which is by fayth.

⁵For the end of the commandement is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith vnfained.

⁶From the which things some haue erred, and haue turned vnto vaine iangling.

⁷They would be doctours of the Law, and yet vnderstande not what they speake, neither whereof they affirme.

⁸And we knowe, that the Law is good, if a man vse it lawfully,

⁹Knowing this, that the Lawe is not giuen vnto a righteous man, but vnto the lawles and disobedient, to the vngodly, and to sinners, to the vnholy, and to the prophane, to murtherers of fathers and mothers, to manslayers,

¹⁰To whoremongers, to buggerers, to menstealers, to lyers, to the periured, and if there be any other thing, that is contrary to wholesome doctrine,

¹¹Which is according to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which is committed vnto me.

¹²Therefore I thanke him, which hath made me strong, that is, Christ Iesus our Lord: for he counted me faithfull, and put me in his seruice: