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1From Small Man (Paul) , a message bearer of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. I was instructed to be a message bearer by the Great Spirit himself, our Sacred Deliverer, and by Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, our hope.
2To He Gives Honor (Timothy) , my true spiritual son. I greet you with the gift of great kindness, mercy, and peace that comes from our Father the Great Spirit and from Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, our Honored Chief.
3When I left to travel to Land of Tall People (Macedonia) , I urged you to remain at Village of Desire (Ephesus) to instruct certain people not to teach things that are not true
4and to turn away from stories with no meaning and from long ancestral histories. These things only cause arguments and confuse people instead of helping them to trust in the good road of the Great Spirit.
5My aim in telling you these things is that you would walk the path of love with a pure heart, being true to what you trust in and honest to who you are deep inside.
6For there are some who have wandered from this good path and turned aside to nothing but worthless talk.
7They want to be seen as teachers of our tribal law, but they do not understand the words they speak or the things they so boldly teach.[#1:7 Luke 5:17; Acts 5:34]
8We know that the law is good if it is used in the right way.
9For we understand that the law was not made for those who walk in a good way. The law was made for outlaws, rebels, and those who follow their bad hearts and have no respect for what is spiritual. It was made for the unholy ones who walk in worthless ways, and for the ones who kill their own fathers or mothers and take the lives of others.
10The law was made for men who sell their bodies for sex or abuse the sacred gift of sex with each other, for slave traders, forked-tongue talkers, those who tell lies about their fellow human beings, and for anything else that goes against the kind of teaching
11found in the good story that shows the beauty of the Blessed One, our Creator. This is the teaching that was entrusted to me.
12I give thanks to the Chosen One, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) our Honored Chief, for the strength he gives me to walk out this sacred task.
13He chose me even though I used to speak evil against him. I even hunted down and attacked his followers. But he took pity on me because I did not know what I was doing and did not yet believe who he was.
14The gift of Creator’s great kindness overflowed to me along with the trust and love found in Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One.
15Here is a saying that you can be sure of: Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One came into this world to set bad-hearted people free from their broken ways—and I am the worst one of all.
16But I was shown mercy so that in me Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One could show that he does not give up on even the worst bad-hearted person. In this way, I became an example of his patience that never runs dry for the ones who would put their trust in him for the life of the world to come that never fades away, full of beauty and harmony.
17So let us honor the Great Chief of all the ages, the one whom death has no power over, who cannot be seen with human eyes. He is the only true and Great Spirit. All honor and shining-greatness belong to him to the time beyond the end of all days. Aho! May it be so!
18Now, He Gives Honor (Timothy) my spiritual son, the instructions I give you are the same ones that were spoken over you as prophecies. Use these as weapons to keep fighting this spiritual battle in a good way.
19Keep your trust in the Chosen One strong and follow what you know deep inside to be true. Some have not listened to this inner voice, and their trust in the Chosen One has fallen to the ground.
20This happened to Sings with a Glad Heart (Hymenaeus) and Man Fighter (Alexander) . I had to hand them over to Accuser (Satan) that they might learn not to speak against the Great Spirit.