提摩太前书 1
问候
1 奉我们的救主上帝，和我们的盼望基督耶稣的命令，作基督耶稣使徒的保罗， 2 写信给那因信主作我真儿子的提摩太。愿恩惠、怜悯、平安t从父上帝和我们主基督耶稣归给你！
警告虚伪的教义
3 我往马其顿去的时候，曾劝你留在以弗所，好嘱咐某些人不可传别的教义， 4 也不要听从无稽的传说和冗长的家谱；这样的事只会引起争论，无助于上帝的计划，这计划是凭着信才能了解的。 5 但命令的目的就是爱；这爱是出于清洁的心、无愧的良心和无伪的信心。 6 有人偏离了这些而转向空谈， 7 想要作律法教师，却不明白自己所讲的是什么，也不知道所主张的是什么。
8 我们知道，只要人善用律法，律法是好的； 9 因为知道律法不是为义人订立的，而是为不法和叛逆的，不虔诚和犯罪的，不圣洁和恋世俗的，弑父母和杀人的， 10 犯淫乱和亲男色的，拐卖人口和说谎话的，并起假誓的，或是为任何违背健全教义的事订立的。 11 这是按照可称颂、荣耀之上帝交托我的福音说的。
感谢上帝的怜悯
12 我感谢那赐给我力量的我们的主基督耶稣，因为他认为我可信任，派我服事他。 13 我从前是亵渎、迫害、侮慢上帝的人；然而我还蒙了怜悯，因为我是在不信、不明白的时候做的。 14 而且我们的主的恩典格外丰盛，使我在基督耶稣里有信心和爱心。 15 这话可信，值得完全接受：“基督耶稣到世上来是要拯救罪人”，而在罪人中我是个罪魁。 16 然而，我蒙了怜悯，好让基督耶稣在我这罪魁身上显明他完全的忍耐，给后来信他得永生的人作榜样。 17 愿尊贵、荣耀归给永世的君王，那不朽坏、看不见、独一的上帝，直到永永远远。阿们！
18 我儿提摩太啊，我照从前指着你的预言把这命令交托你，使你能藉着这些预言打那美好的仗， 19 常存信心和无愧的良心。有些人丢弃良心，在信仰上触了礁； 20 其中有许米乃和亚历山大，我已经把他们交给撒但，让他们学会不再亵渎。
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.