1 Timothy 1

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

²to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

³As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

⁴and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.

⁵But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

⁶from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

⁷desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.

⁸But we know that the law is good if a person uses it lawfully,

⁹as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

¹⁰for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

¹¹according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

¹²I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,