Paul,

An Apostle of Christ Jesus,

In virtue of the command of God our

Saviour,

And Jesus Christ our hope,

To Timothy, my true child in the faith:
May favor, pity, and peace, be yours,
From God the Father,

And Jesus Christ our Lord.

Just as I urged you to stay at Ephesus when I was going to Macedonia, so do I now. And I do this so that you may charge some men not to spread a different kind of teaching, nor to give their attention to fictions, and endless genealogies. For these furnish questions for controversy rather than further God's arrangement for man's salvation which comes to realization in his faith. But the purpose of the charge is to develop a pure and hearty love, a good conscience and a sincere faith. For some have missed the truth and have gone into empty talk desiring to be teachers of the law when they really do not understand either what they are saying, or about what they are making their confident assertions.

Now we know that the law is a noble thing

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If any one uses it as it was meant to be used. For we know that the law does not exist

For a good man,

But for the lawless and disobedient,

For the irreverent and sinners,

For the impure and profane,

For smiters of fathers and smiters of

mothers,

For manslayers, menstealers,

Immoral people, Sodomites,

Liars, perjurers,

And everything else

Which is contrary to healthy teaching.

This is the view of the law

Which is in accord with the majestic character

Of the blessed God

As contained in the Good News

And made known by it.

It was this with which I was once for all entrusted.

I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord for giving me strength and considering me fit to serve him, though formerly I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, insolent in word and outrageous in deed. But God had pity on me because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. Yes, our Lord's favor produced in me a most abundant harvest of faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. To be relied

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on is the saying, and worthy of a full and complete

acceptance, that

"Christ Jesus came into the world

To save sinners."

And of these I am the greatest.

But God had pity

on me, so that in me, as such a great sinner, Christ Jesus might show the wealth of his forbearance. And he did this, so that his dealings with me might be an illustration of what could be expected by those who should afterwards believe and attain to eternal life.

Now to the King of the ages,

The immortal, invisible, only God, Be honor and majesty

Forever and ever.
Amen.

I commit this charge to you, my child Timothy, in accordance with the prophecies about you which have already been made, so that you may carry on a noble war in them with faith and a good conscience. For, by putting aside a good conscience, some have made shipwreck of the faith. Among such are Hymenæus and Alexander, whom I handed over to Satan to be taught by proper discipline not to blaspheme.

So I urge, first of all, that petitions, prayers, supplications, thanksgivings, be made for all men ; for kings and all who are in authority, so that our lives may be quiet and peaceable in the full exer

cise of reverence and becoming dignity.

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This is

noble and pleasant to God our Saviour, who wishes everybody to be saved and to attain to a full knowledge of the truth. For there is but one God and one means of communication between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for everybody, and the import of the testimony is to be made known on proper occasions. It was for this I was appointed a herald and an Apostle,-I am speaking the truth, I am not lying, -a teacher of the heathen in faith and truth.

So I direct men to pray everywhere, lifting up pure hands without anger and doubts. I also direct women to wear a well arranged dress with modesty and discretion, not with braided hair and gold, or pearls, or costly clothing, but,-for this becomes women professing reverence for God-with generous deeds. Let the women learn in silence, and be in subjection under all circumstances. allow a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be quiet. For Adam was the first to be formed, then Eve. And it was not Adam who was deceived. It was the woman who was completely deceived and fell into error. 66 5 But she shall be saved

Through her childbearing

If she continues in faith and love

And devotion with discretion."

To be relied on is this saying.

I do not