1 Timoteus 1
1 Paulus, Kristi Jesu apostel efter befaling av Gud, vår frelser, og Kristus Jesus, vårt håp2 (-)til Timoteus, min ekte sønn i troen: Nåde, miskunn, fred fra Gud Fader og Kristus Jesus, vår Herre!
3 Som jeg bad dig da jeg drog til Makedonia, å bli i Efesus, forat du skulde byde visse folk ikke å fare med fremmed lære
4 og ikke å gi sig av med eventyr og endeløse ættetavler, som mere fører til stridigheter enn til å tjene som Guds husholdere i troen(-)så ber jeg dig også nu.
5 Men budets endemål er kjærlighet av et rent hjerte og en god samvittighet og en uskrømtet tro.6 Fra dette har nogen faret vill og vendt sig bort til tomt snakk,7 idet de vil være lovlærere, enda de hverken skjønner det som de sier, eller de ting som de så selvsikkert taler om.8 Men vi vet at loven er god dersom nogen bruker den på lovlig vis,9 så han vet dette at loven ikke er satt for en rettferdig, men for lovløse og selvrådige, for ugudelige og syndere, for vanhellige og urene, fadermordere og modermordere, manndrapere,10 horkarler, syndere mot naturen, menneskerøvere, løgnere, menedere, og alt annet som er imot den sunde lære,
11 efter evangeliet om den salige Guds herlighet, det som er mig betrodd.
12 Jeg takker ham som gjorde mig sterk, Kristus Jesus, vår Herre, at han aktet mig tro, idet han satte mig til tjenesten,13 mig som før var en spotter og forfølger og voldsmann; men jeg fikk miskunn, fordi jeg gjorde det uvitende i vantro,14 og vår Herres nåde blev overvettes stor med tro og kjærlighet i Kristus Jesus.15 Det er et troverdig ord og fullt verd å motta at Kristus Jesus kom til verden for å frelse syndere, og blandt dem er jeg den største;16 men derfor fikk jeg miskunn, forat Jesus Kristus på mig først kunde vise hele sin langmodighet, til et forbillede for dem som skulde tro på ham til et evig liv.
17 Men den evige konge, den uforgjengelige, usynlige, eneste Gud, være ære og pris i all evighet! Amen.
18 Dette bud overgir jeg dig, min sønn Timoteus, efter de tidligere profetiske ord om dig, forat du ved dem skal stride den gode strid,19 idet du har tro og en god samvittighet; den har somme kastet fra sig og lidt skibbrudd på sin tro;
20 blandt disse er Hymeneus og Aleksander, som jeg har overgitt til Satan, forat de skal tuktes til å la være å spotte.
1 TIMOTHY 1
1 From Paul.
God our Savior and Christ Jesus commanded me to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, who gives us hope.
2 t Timothy, because of our faith, you are like a son to me. I pray that God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ will be kind and merciful to you. May they bless you with peace!Warning against False //Teaching
3 When I was leaving for Macedonia, I asked you to stay on in Ephesus and warn certain people there to stop spreading their false teachings.
4 You needed to warn them to stop wasting their time on senseless stories and endless lists of ancestors. Such things only cause arguments. They don't help anyone to do God's work that can only be done by faith.
5 You must teach people to have genuine love, as well as a good conscience and true faith. 6 There are some who have given up these for nothing but empty talk.
7 They want to be teachers of the Law of Moses. But they don't know what they are talking about, even though they think they do.
8 We know the Law is good, if it is used in the right way. 9 We also understand it wasn't given to control people who please God, but to control lawbreakers, criminals, godless people, and sinners. It is for wicked and evil people, and for murderers, who would even kill their own parents. 10 The Law was written for people who are sexual perverts or who live as homosexuals or are kidnappers or liars or won't tell the truth in court. It is for anything else that opposes the correct teaching
11 of the good news the glorious and wonderful God has given me.Being Thankful for //God's Kindness
12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me the strength for my work because he knew he could trust me. 13 t I used to say terrible and insulting things about him, and I was cruel. But Christ had mercy on me because I didn't know what I was doing, and I had not yet put my faith in him.
14 Christ Jesus our Lord treated me with undeserved grace and has greatly blessed my life with faith and love just like his own.
15 “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” This saying is true, and it can be trusted. I was the worst sinner of all! 16 But since I was worse than anyone else, God had mercy on me and let me be an example of the endless patience of Christ Jesus. He did this so that others would put their faith in Christ and have eternal life.
17 I pray that honor and glory will always be given to the only God, who lives forever and is the invisible and eternal King! Amen.
18 Timothy, my son, the instructions I am giving you are based on what some prophetst once said about you. If you follow these instructions, you will fight like a good soldier. 19 You will be faithful and have a clear conscience. Some people have made a mess of their faith because they didn't listen to their consciences. 20 Two of them are Hymenaeus and Alexander. I have given these men over to the power of Satan, so they will learn not to oppose God.