提摩太前書 1
問候
1 奉我們的救主上帝，和我們的盼望基督耶穌的命令，作基督耶穌使徒的保羅， 2 寫信給那因信主作我真兒子的提摩太。願恩惠、憐憫、平安t從父上帝和我們主基督耶穌歸給你！
警告虛偽的教義
3 我往馬其頓去的時候，曾勸你留在以弗所，好囑咐某些人不可傳別的教義， 4 也不要聽從無稽的傳說和冗長的家譜；這樣的事只會引起爭論，無助於上帝的計劃，這計劃是憑著信才能了解的。 5 但命令的目的就是愛；這愛是出於清潔的心、無愧的良心和無偽的信心。 6 有人偏離了這些而轉向空談， 7 想要作律法教師，卻不明白自己所講的是甚麼，也不知道所主張的是甚麼。
8 我們知道，只要人善用律法，律法是好的； 9 因為知道律法不是為義人訂立的，而是為不法和叛逆的，不虔誠和犯罪的，不聖潔和戀世俗的，弒父母和殺人的， 10 犯淫亂和親男色的，拐賣人口和說謊話的，並起假誓的，或是為任何違背健全教義的事訂立的。 11 這是按照可稱頌、榮耀之上帝交託我的福音說的。
感謝上帝的憐憫
12 我感謝那賜給我力量的我們的主基督耶穌，因為他認為我可信任，派我服事他。 13 我從前是褻瀆、迫害、侮慢上帝的人；然而我還蒙了憐憫，因為我是在不信、不明白的時候做的。 14 而且我們的主的恩典格外豐盛，使我在基督耶穌裏有信心和愛心。 15 這話可信，值得完全接受：「基督耶穌到世上來是要拯救罪人」，而在罪人中我是個罪魁。 16 然而，我蒙了憐憫，好讓基督耶穌在我這罪魁身上顯明他完全的忍耐，給後來信他得永生的人作榜樣。 17 願尊貴、榮耀歸給永世的君王，那不朽壞、看不見、獨一的上帝，直到永永遠遠。阿們！
18 我兒提摩太啊，我照從前指著你的預言把這命令交託你，使你能藉著這些預言打那美好的仗， 19 常存信心和無愧的良心。有些人丟棄良心，在信仰上觸了礁； 20 其中有許米乃和亞歷山大，我已經把他們交給撒但，讓他們學會不再褻瀆。
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.