CHAPTER I.
A CHARGE TO TIMOTHY CONCERNING THE GOSPEL, PUBLIC PRAYER, AND THE DUTIES OF WOMEN.
1 1:1PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope, 1:2to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 1:3As I requested you to remain at Ephesus, when going into Macedonia, that you might charge some not to preach another doctrine, 1:4nor attend to myths or interminable genealogies, which occasion disputes rather than a dispensation of God by faith, [do.] 1:5But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned, 1:6which some having missed turned aside to vain words, 1:7desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions. 1:8But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully; 1:9knowing 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, 1:10fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, 1:11according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been intrusted. 1:12And I thank our Lord Jesus Christ who has empowered me [to preach,] that he accounted me faithful, putting me in the ministry, 1:13who formerly was a blasphemer and persecutor and an injurious man; but I obtained mercy because I did those things ignorantly in unbelief; 1:14and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 1:15The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief; 1:16but 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. 1:17And to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever; amen.
3 1:18This 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, 1:19having faith and a good conscience, which some having cast away have suffered shipwreck of the faith; 1:20of whom are Hymenæus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
4 2:1I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings should be offered for all men, 2:2for kings and all in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives in all piety and sanctity. 2:3For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, 2:4who wishes all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of truth. 2:5For there is one God, and one mediator of God and man, the man Christ Jesus, 2:6who gave himself a ransom for all, a testimony for its own times, 2:7of which I was made a herald and an apostle,—I speak the truth, I lie not,—a teacher of nations in faith and truth.
5 2:8I wish also that men should pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputations; 2:9and in like manner also, that women in becoming apparel with modesty and sobriety adorn themselves, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, 2:10but with good works, which become women professing godliness. 2:11Let a woman learn quietly in all subjection; 2:12but I permit not a woman to teach, nor to have authority over a man, but to be quiet. 2:13For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 2:14And Adam was not deceived; but the woman being deceived fell into transgression; 2:15but she shall be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and love, and holiness, with sobriety.