12我感謝賜我力量的主基督耶穌，因為祂視我忠心可靠，派我事奉祂。13儘管我從前是個褻瀆上帝、迫害和侮辱信徒的人，但我仍然蒙了憐憫，因為那時我無知，還沒有信耶穌。14主賜給我豐富的恩典，使我在基督耶穌裡有信心和愛心。15有句話千真萬確、完全可信，就是「基督耶穌降世，為要拯救罪人。」在罪人中我是個罪魁，16但我依然蒙了憐憫，因為耶穌基督要在我這個罪魁身上彰顯祂無限的忍耐，使我做那些要信靠祂並得到永生之人的榜樣。17願尊貴、榮耀歸給那位不朽的、肉眼不能見的萬世君王——獨一無二的上帝，直到永遠。阿們！18我兒提摩太啊，我依照從前有關你的預言，把這命令託付給你，好使你藉此打美好的仗。19你要持守信心和無虧的良心。有些人喪掉良心，結果他們的信仰就像船觸了礁，20其中有許米乃和亞歷山大。我已經把他們交給撒旦，使他們受些教訓，不敢再說褻瀆的話。
English Standard Version
Greeting
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,2To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Warning Against False Teachers
3As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,4nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship* from God that is by faith.5The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.6Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion,7desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.8Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,9understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,10the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers,* liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound* doctrine,11in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
Christ Jesus Came to Save Sinners
12I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,13though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,14and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.15The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.16But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.17To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.* Amen.18This charge I entrust to you, Timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,19holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,20among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme.
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