¹Paul, a sent one of the Anointed One Jesus the Lord according to the command of God our Savior and of the Lord, the Anointed One Jesus, our hope,

²to Timothy, my true child in the trust: Favor, compassion, and wholeness from God our Father and the Anointed One Jesus our Lord.

³Even as I urged you to remain in Ephesus when I was going to Macedonia, so that you may warn certain men not to teach other doctrines,

⁴nor to give heed to myths and to endless genealogies, which bring speculations rather than the stewardship of God which is in the trust.

⁵Now the goal of the instruction is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere trust,

⁶from which some, when they had missed the mark, have turned aside to meaningless discourse,

⁷desiring to be teachers of the Law, not understanding either what they are saying or that about which they confidently assert.

⁸Now we know that the law is good, if one shall use it lawfully,

⁹knowing this, that law is not enacted for a righteous one, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for slayers of man,

¹⁰for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for enslavers, for liars, for perjurers, and if anything other which is opposed to sound teaching,

¹¹according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I myself was entrusted.

¹²And I have thankfulness for the One who strengthened me, the Anointed One Jesus our Lord, that He esteemed me faithful, having appointed me to service,

¹³the one formerly being a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent; but I was shown mercy, because being ignorant I did it in distrust;

¹⁴And the favor of our Lord abounded exceedingly with the trust and love that are in the Anointed One Jesus.

¹⁵Trustworthy is the saying and worthy of full acceptance, that the Anointed One Jesus came into the world to rescue sinners, of whom I myself am the foremost;

¹⁶but because of this I was shown mercy, that in me the foremost the Anointed One Jesus may display his perfect patience, as a pattern for those being about to trust on Him to eternal life.

¹⁷Now to the King of the ages, the immortal, invisible, only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever, Amen.

¹⁸This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies going before as to you, that by them you may war the good warfare,

¹⁹holding trust and a good conscience, which some, having cast away concerning the trust, caused a shipwreck,

²⁰among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to the adversary, that they may be disciplined not to blaspheme.