¹Paul , an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Saviour and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope ,[#1:1 NU reads Christ Jesus and omits the Lord.]

²to Timothy , my true child in faith : Grace , mercy , and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord .

³As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia , stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine ,

⁴and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies , which cause disputes rather than God ’s stewardship , which is in faith .

⁵But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart , a good conscience , and sincere faith ,

⁶from which things some , having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

⁷desiring to be teachers of the law , though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm .

⁸But we know that the law is good if a person uses it lawfully ,

⁹as knowing this , that law is not made for a righteous person , but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers , for manslayers,

¹⁰for the sexually immoral , for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars , for perjurers , and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine ,

¹¹according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God , which was committed to my trust .

¹²I thank him who enabled me , Christ Jesus our Lord , because he counted me faithful , appointing me to service ,

¹³although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor , and insolent . However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

¹⁴The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus .

¹⁵The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief .

¹⁶However, for this cause I obtained mercy , that in me first , Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life .

¹⁷Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honour and glory forever and ever . Amen.

¹⁸I commit this instruction to you , my child Timothy , according to the prophecies which were given to you before , that by them you may wage the good warfare ,

¹⁹holding faith and a good conscience , which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith ,

²⁰of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they might be taught not to blaspheme.