1 Timothy 1:3-11

Tree of Life Version

Beware of False Teachers

³ As I urged you, when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay in Ephesus to direct certain people not to pass on different instruction, ⁴ or to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies. These give rise to useless speculations rather than God’s training which is in faithfulness. ⁵ Now the goal of this command is love from of a pure heart and a clear conscience and a genuine faith. ⁶ Some, having missed the mark, have turned away to fruitless discussion— ⁷ wanting to be teachers of Torah, even though they do not understand what they keep saying or what they so dogmatically assert.

⁸ But we know that the Torah is good if one uses it legitimately, ⁹ knowing that the Torah is not given for a tzaddik but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and worldly, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, ¹⁰ the sexually immoral, homosexuals, slave-traders, liars, perjurers, and for anything else that opposes sound teaching— ¹¹ in keeping with what was entrusted to me, the glorious Good News of the blessed God.