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1 Timothy


 
Chapter 1

 
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Savior, and LORD Jesus Christ, who is our hope;
    2.To Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our LORD.
    3.As I sought you to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that you might charge some, so that they teach no other doctrine,
    4.Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: do so.
    5.Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
    6.From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
    7.Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor of which they affirm.
    8.But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully;
    9.Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers,
    10.For whoremongers, for those who defile themselves with mankind, for men stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
    11.According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
    12.And I thank Christ Jesus our LORD, who has enabled me, for he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
    13.Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious; but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
    14.And the grace of our LORD was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
    15.This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
    16.However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that first Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffering in me, for a pattern to those who should hereafter believe in him to life everlasting.
    17.Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, is honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
    18.This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on you, that you, by them, might war a good warfare;
    19.Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck;
    20.Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

 

Chapter 2
  1. I therefore exhort that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
  2. For kings, and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty.
  3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
  4. Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
  5. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
  6. Who gave himself for a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
  7. To what end I am ordained as a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
  8. I therefore want that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
  9. In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
  10. But (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
  11. Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
  12. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
  13. For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
  14. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
  15. Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

 

Chapter 3
  1. This is a true saying, If a man desires the office of a bishop, he desires a good work.
  2. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
  3. Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;
  4. One that rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
  5. (For if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
  6. Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he falls into the condemnation of the devil.
  7. Moreover he must have a good report of them who are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
  8. Likewise the deacons must be grave, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
  9. Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
  10. And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.
  11. Even so, their wives must be grave, not slanderers; sober, faithful in all things.
  12. Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
  13. For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
  14. These things I write I to you, hoping to come to you shortly,
  15. But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
  16. And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached to the Gentiles, believed in in the world, received up into glory.

 

Chapter 4
  1. Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
  2. Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  3. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from food, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them who believe and know the truth.
  4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it is received with thanksgiving:
  5. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
  6. If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to where you have attained.
  7. But refuse profane and old wives fables, and rather exercise yourself to godliness.
  8. For bodily exercise profits little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
  9. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance.
  10. For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe.
  11. Command and teach these things.
  12. Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
  13. Until I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
  14. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
  15. Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
  16. Take heed to yourself, and to the doctrine; continue in them; for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and those that hear you.

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