The New Testament
Translated from the Original Greek
1858 by Leicester Sawyer

1 Timothy Chapter 1

1Ti 1:1 PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope,
1Ti 1:2 to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1Ti 1:3 As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine,
1Ti 1:4 nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.]
1Ti 1:5 But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,
1Ti 1:6 which some having missed turned aside to vain words,
1Ti 1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.
1Ti 1:8 But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully;
1Ti 1:9 knowing this, that a law is not made for a righteous man, but for the wicked and disorderly, the impious and sinful, the unholy and profane, murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers and murderers of their fellow-men,
1Ti 1:10 fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
1Ti 1:11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted.
1Ti 1:12 And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry,
1Ti 1:13 who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief;
1Ti 1:14 and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti 1:15 The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief;
1Ti 1:16 but on this account I obtained mercy, that Jesus Christ might exhibit in me first all long-suffering, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him to life eternal.
1Ti 1:17 And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen.
1Ti 1:18 This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before concerning you, that by them you may perform an honorable service,
1Ti 1:19 having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith;
1Ti 1:20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.