UST 1TIM Chapter 1

1 From Paul, a man who represents Jesus the Messiah. This is what God, the one who saves us, and our Lord Jesus the Messiah, in whom we hope, commanded me to do.

2 You, Timothy, are like a true son to me as a fellow believer. May God the Father and our Lord Jesus the Messiah act kindly and mercifully to you, and keep you peaceful. 3 I urge you now, just as I urged you when I was going to the province of Macedonia, to remain in the city of Ephesus. Stay there so that you can command certain men there to stop teaching people things that are different from what is true. 4 Instruct them to stop focusing on old useless stories and endless lists of ancestors. Those things only cause people to argue with each other. They do not help God’s plan to move forward. That happens when we trust in God. 5 We insist on these things so that God’s people will love each other. They will do this when they desire only what is good, when they know confidently that they are doing the right things, and when they genuinely trust in God. 6 Some people have rejected these good things. Instead, they prefer to teach useless things. 7 They desire to be teachers of the laws that God gave to Moses, but they do not understand the things that they talk about, nor the things that they insist are true.

8 But we know that the laws that God gave to Moses are helpful if people use them in the right way. 9 We know that God does not establish laws for people who do what is right, but for people who act as though there are no laws and who refuse to obey anyone. God establishes laws for those who do not honor God and for those who sin, for those who do not revere God and who pay no attention to him. He establishes laws for those who murder their fathers, for those who murder their mothers, and for those who murder other people. 10 God establishes laws for people who are sexually immoral, men who have sexual relations with other men, those who kidnap people and sell them as slaves, liars, those who are false witnesses in courts of law, and every other action that is contrary to our true teaching. 11 This teaching comes from the good news about our wonderful God, whom we praise. This is the good news that he gave to me to announce to others.

12 I am grateful to Jesus our Lord the Messiah who enabled me to do this work, because he considered that he could trust me. So he appointed me to serve him. 13 Formerly I said false things about him, I caused his people to suffer, and I acted very violently toward them. But the Messiah acted kindly to me since I did not know that what I was doing was wrong. I did not know that what I was doing was wrong because I did not believe in him. 14 Our Lord abundantly did for me what I did not deserve, allowing me to believe in the Messiah Jesus and to love him as someone who belongs to him.

15 Everyone should trust this statement and accept it completely: “Jesus the Messiah came into the world to save sinful people so that God would not punish them for their sins.” As for me, I have sinned worse than all the others. 16 But this is why the Messiah Jesus acted mercifully to me. Since I am the person who has sinned worse than all others, he used me as an example to show how perfectly patient he is with people. He wanted to show this to the people who would later believe in him and, as a result, would live forever.

17 So let us honor and praise the one who is the eternal king, the one whom no one can see and who can never die! He alone is God. Let us praise him forever and ever! May it be so! 18 Timothy, you are like a son to me. I am telling you to do these things in agreement with what people previously prophesied about you. I want those messages to encourage you to serve God as diligently as a soldier would obey a commanding officer. 19 Continue to trust in the Lord Jesus and to do only what you know to be right! Some people have stopped doing this and so have destroyed their relationship with God. 20 Among the ones who have done this are Hymenaeus and Alexander. I put them into the control of Satan so that when Satan makes them suffer they may learn not to insult God.

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