Book 54 1 Timothy
001:001 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God our Saviour
and Christ Jesus our hope:
001:002 To Timothy, my own true son in the faith. May grace,
mercy and peace be granted to you from God the Father and
Christ Jesus our Lord.
001:003 When I was on my journey to Macedonia I begged you to remain
on in Ephesus that you might remonstrate with certain persons
because of their erroneous teaching
001:004 and the attention they bestow on mere fables and endless pedigrees,
such as lead to controversy rather than to a true stewardship
for God, which only exists where there is faith.
And I make the same request now.
001:005 But the end sought to be secured by exhortation is the love
which springs from a pure heart, a clear conscience and
a sincere faith.
001:006 From these some have drifted away, and have wandered
into empty words.
001:007 They are ambitious to be teachers of the Law, although they
do not understand either their own words or what the things
are about which they make such confident assertions.
001:008 Now we know that the Law is good, if a man uses it in the way
it should be used,
001:009 and remembers that a law is not enacted to control a righteous man,
but for the lawless and rebellious, the irreligious and sinful,
the godless and profane--for those who strike their fathers
or their mothers, for murderers,
001:010 fornicators, sodomites, slave-dealers, liars and false witnesses;
and for whatever else is opposed to wholesome teaching
001:011 and is not in accordance with the Good News of the blessed