I Timothy 1-3

I Timothy 1

¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

²to Timotheus -- genuine child in faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord,

³according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus -- I going on to Macedonia -- that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

⁴nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

⁵And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

⁶from which certain, having swerved, did turn aside to vain discourse,

⁷willing to be teachers of law, not understanding either the things they say, nor concerning what they asseverate,

⁸and we have known that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully;

⁹having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers,

¹⁰whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

¹¹according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

¹²And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put me to the ministration,

¹³who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did it in unbelief,

¹⁴and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that is in Christ Jesus:

¹⁵stedfast is the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners -- first of whom I am;

¹⁶but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:

¹⁷and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, is honour and glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.

¹⁸This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,

¹⁹having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,

²⁰of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I did deliver to the Adversary, that they might be instructed not to speak evil.

I Timothy 2

¹I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

²for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

³for this is right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

⁴who doth will all men to be saved, and to come to the full knowledge of the truth;

⁵for one is God, one also is mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

⁶who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --

⁷in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

⁸I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

⁹in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

¹⁰but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.

¹¹Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

¹²and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

¹³for Adam was first formed, then Eve,

¹⁴and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, into transgression came,

¹⁵and she shall be saved through the child-bearing, if they remain in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

I Timothy 3

¹Stedfast is the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

²it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

³not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,

⁴his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity,

⁵(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

⁶not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

⁷and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

⁸Ministrants -- in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

⁹having the secret of the faith in a pure conscience,

¹⁰and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

¹¹Women -- in like manner grave, not false accusers, vigilant, faithful in all things.

¹²Ministrants -- let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

¹³for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴These things I write to thee, hoping to come unto thee soon,

¹⁵and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

¹⁶and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!