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1:1 Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God our
 Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:
1:2 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.
1:3 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 /1 erroneous teaching
1:4 and the attention they bestow on mere fables and endless /2
 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.
1:5 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.
1:6 From these some have /3 drifted away, and have wandered into
 empty words.
1:7 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.
1:8 Now we know that the Law is good, if a man uses it in the
 way it should be used,
1:9 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,

1:10 fornicators, sodomites, slave-dealers, liars and false
 witnesses; and for whatever else is opposed to wholesome
 teaching
1:11 and is not in accordance with the Good News of the blessed
 God with which I have been entrusted.
1:12 I am thankful to Him who made me strong--even Christ Jesus
 our Lord--because He has judged me to be faithful and has put
 me into His service,
1:13 though I was previously a blasphemer and a persecutor and
 had been insolent in outrage. Yet mercy was shown me, because
 /1 I had acted ignorantly, not having as yet believed;
1:14 and the grace of our Lord came to me in overflowing
 fulness, conferring faith on me and the love which is in Christ
 Jesus.
1:15 Faithful is the saying, and deserving of universal
 acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save
 sinners; among whom I stand /2 foremost.
1:16 But mercy was shown me in order that in me as the foremost
 of sinners Christ Jesus might display the fulness of His
 long-suffering patience as an example to encourage those who
 would /3 afterwards be resting their faith on Him with a view
 to the Life of the Ages.
1:17 Now to the immortal and invisible King of the Ages, who
 alone is God, be honour and glory to the Ages of the Ages!
 Amen.
1:18 This is the charge which I entrust to you, my son Timothy,
 in accordance with the inspired instructions concerning you
 which were given me long ago, that being equipped with them as
 your armour you may be continually fighting the good fight,
1:19 holding fast to faith and a clear conscience, which some
 have cast aside and have made shipwreck of their faith.
1:20 Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have
 delivered to Satan so that they may be /4 taught not to
 blaspheme.

2:1 I exhort then, first of all, that /1 supplications, prayers,
 intercessions and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all
 men;
2:2 including kings and all who are in high station, in order
 that we may live peaceful and tranquil lives with all godliness
 and /2 gravity.
2:3 This is right, and is pleasing in the sight of God our
 Saviour,
2:4 who is willing for /3 all mankind to be saved and come to a
 full knowledge of the truth.
2:5 For there is but one God and but one Mediator between God
 and men--Christ Jesus, /4 Himself man;
2:6 who gave Himself as the redemption price for all--a fact
 testified to at its own appointed time,
2:7 and of which I have been appointed a herald and an Apostle
 (I am speaking the truth: it is not a fiction), a teacher of
 the Gentiles in faith and truth.
2:8 So then I would have /5 the men /6 everywhere pray, lifting
 to God holy hands which are /7 unstained with anger or strife;
2:9 and I would have the women dress becomingly, with modesty
 and self-control, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or
 costly clothes,
2:10 but--as befits women making a claim to godliness--with the
 ornament of good works.
2:11 /8 A woman should quietly learn from others with entire
 submissiveness.
2:12 I do not permit /8 a woman to teach, nor have authority
 over /8 a man, but she must remain silent.
2:13 For Adam was formed first, and then Eve;
2:14 and Adam was not deceived, but his wife was thoroughly
 deceived, and so /9 became involved in transgression.

2:15 Yet a woman will be /1 brought safely through childbirth if
 /2 she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and
 growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.
3:1 Faithful is the saying, "If any one is eager to have the
 oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work."
3:2 A /3 minister then must be a man of irreproachable
 character, /4 true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded,
 well-behaved, /5 hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for
 teaching;
3:3 not a hard drinker nor given to blows; not selfish or
 quarrelsome or covetous;
3:4 but ruling his own household wisely and well, with children
 kept under control with true dignity.
3:5 (If a man does not know how to rule his own household, how
 shall he have the Church of God given into his care?)
3:6 He ought not to be a new convert, for fear he should be
 blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the
 Devil.
3:7 It is needful also that he bear a good character with people
 outside the Church, lest he fall into reproach or a snare of
 the Devil.
3:8 Deacons, in the same way, must be men of serious demeanour,
 not double-tongued, nor addicted to much wine, nor greedy of
 base gain,
3:9 but holding the secret truths of the faith with a clear
 conscience.
3:10 And they must also be well-tried men, and when found to be
 of unblemished character then let them serve as deacons.
3:11 Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women,
 not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy.
3:12 A deacon must be /4 true to his one wife, and rule his
 children and his own household wisely and well.
3:13 For those who have filled the deacon's office wisely and
 well, are already gaining for themselves /6 an honourable
 standing, and are acquiring great freedom of speech in
 proclaiming the faith which rests on Christ Jesus.

3:14 All this I write to you, though I am hoping before long to
 come to see you.
3:15 But, for fear I may be hindered, I now write, so that you
 may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household. /1
 For this is what the Church of the /2 ever-living God is, and
 it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth.
3:16 And, beyond controversy, great is the mystery of our
 religion-- /3 that Christ appeared in human form, and His
 claims justified by the Spirit, was seen by angels and
 proclaimed among Gentile nations, was believed on in the world,
 and received up again into glory.
4:1 Now /4 the Spirit expressly declares that in /5 later times
 some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving
 spirits and the teachings of demons;
4:2 through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely and have
 their own consciences seared as with a hot iron;
4:3 forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from
 foods which God has created to be partaken of, with
 thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge
 of the truth.
4:4 For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is
 to be cast aside, if only it is received with thanksgiving.
4:5 For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.
4:6 If you warn the brethren of these dangers you will be a good
 and faithful servant of Christ Jesus, inwardly feeding on the
 lessons of the faith and of the sound teaching of which you
 have been, and are, so close a follower.
4:7 But worldly stories, fit only for credulous old women, have
 nothing to do with.
4:8 Train yours