Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Timothy

Produced by Martin Ward
Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, 1 Timothy
Third Edition 1913
R. F. Weymouth
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,