1 Timothy

问候

1奉我们救主 神和我们的盼望基督耶稣之命，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、平安从父 神和我们主基督耶稣归与你！

警告虚伪的道理

3我往马其顿去的时候，曾劝你仍住在以弗所，好嘱咐那几个人不可传异教，

4也不可听从荒渺无凭的话语和无穷的家谱；这等事只生辩论，并不发明 神在信上所立的章程。

5但命令的总归就是爱；这爱是从清洁的心和无亏的良心，无伪的信心生出来的。

6有人偏离这些，反去讲虚浮的话，

7想要作教法师，却不明白自己所讲说的所论定的。

8我们知道律法原是好的，只要人用得合宜；

9因为律法不是为义人设立的，乃是为不法和不服的，不虔诚和犯罪的，不圣洁和恋世俗的，弑父母和杀人的，

10行淫和亲男色的，抢人口和说谎话的，并起假誓的，或是为别样敌正道的事设立的。

11这是照着可称颂之 神交托我荣耀福音说的。

感谢 神的怜悯

12我感谢那给我力量的我们主基督耶稣，因他以我有忠心，派我服事他。

13我从前是亵渎 神的，逼迫人的，侮慢人的；然而我还蒙了怜悯，因我是不信不明白的时候而做的。

14并且我主的恩是格外丰盛，使我在基督耶稣里有信心和爱心。

15「基督耶稣降世，为要拯救罪人。」这话是可信的，是十分可佩服的。在罪人中我是个罪魁。

16然而，我蒙了怜悯，是因耶稣基督要在我这罪魁身上显明他一切的忍耐，给后来信他得永生的人作榜样。

17但愿尊贵、荣耀归与那不能朽坏、不能看见、永世的君王、独一的 神，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，将这命令交托你，叫你因此可以打那美好的仗。

19常存信心和无亏的良心。有人丢弃良心，就在真道上如同船破坏了一般。

20其中有许米乃和亚历山大；我已经把他们交给撒但，使他们受责罚就不再谤渎了。

1Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christour hope,

2to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

3As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

4and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.

5But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,

6from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

7desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.

8But we know that the law is good if a person uses it lawfully,

9as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

10for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

11according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

12I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,

13although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

14The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

15The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

16However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

17Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

18I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

19holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

20of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they might be taught not to blaspheme.