Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 From Paul, an apostle of Christ
Jesus by order of God our Savior
and Christ Jesus our hope—
2 To Timothy, my true son in the
faith:
2 May God the Father and Christ
Jesus our Lord give you grace,
mercy, and peace. note
Warnings against False Teaching
3 I want you to stay in Ephesus,
just as I urged you when I was on
my way to Macedonia. Some people
there are teaching false doctrines,
and you must order them to stop.
4 Tell them to give up those legends
and those long lists of ancestors,
which only produce arguments; they
do not serve God's plan, which is
known by faith.
5 The purpose of this
order is to arouse the love that
comes from a pure heart, a clear
conscience, and a genuine faith.
6 Some people have turned away
from these and have lost their way
in foolish discussions.
7 They want to
be teachers of God's law, but they
do not understand their own words
or the matters about which they
speak with so much confidence.
8 We know that the Law is good if
it is used as it should be used.
9 It
must be remembered, of course, that
laws are made, not for good people,
but for lawbreakers and criminals,
for the godless and sinful, for those
who are not religious or spiritual, for
those who kill their fathers or mothers,
for murderers,
10 for the immoral,
for sexual perverts, for kidnappers,
for those who lie and give
false testimony or who do anything
else contrary to sound doctrine.
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11 That teaching is found in the gospel
that was entrusted to me to announce,
the Good News from the
glorious and blessed God.
Gratitude for God's Mercy
12 I give thanks to Christ Jesus our
Lord, who has given me strength for
my work. I thank him for considering
me worthy and appointing me to
serve him,
13 even though in the past
I spoke evil of him and persecuted
and insulted him. But God was merciful
to me because I did not yet
have faith and so did not know what
I was doing. note
14 And our Lord poured
out his abundant grace on me and
gave me the faith and love which are
ours in union with Christ Jesus.
15 This is a true saying, to be completely
accepted and believed:
Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners. I am the worst of them,
16 but God was merciful to me in order
that Christ Jesus might show his
full patience in dealing with me, the
worst of sinners, as an example for
all those who would later believe in
him and receive eternal life.
17 To the
eternal King, immortal and invisible,
the only God—to him be honor and
glory forever and ever! Amen.
18 Timothy, my child, I entrust to
you this command, which is in accordance
with the words of prophecy
spoken in the past about you.
Use those words as weapons in order
to fight well,
19 and keep your
faith and a clear conscience. Some
men have not listened to their conscience
and have made a ruin of
their faith.
20 Among them are Hymenaeus
and Alexander, whom I
have punished by handing them over
to the power of Satan; this will teach
them to stop their blasphemy.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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