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I Am Giving You This Instruction, My Child, So You Can Fight The Good Fight

18 I am depositing[a] this instruction[b] with you, my child Timothy, in accordance with the preceding[c] prophecies about you, in order that by them[d] you may fight the good fight, 19 having faith and a good conscience, which[e] having pushed-aside[f], some suffered-shipwreck with respect to the[g] faith— 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I handed-over to Satan in order that they may be trained not to blaspheme.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 1:18 Or, committing, entrusting.
  2. 1 Timothy 1:18 Or, command, as in v 5.
  3. 1 Timothy 1:18 That is, preceding Timothy’s ministry.
  4. 1 Timothy 1:18 Or, in them. That is, by following the contents of this instruction; or, in living out the prophecies.
  5. 1 Timothy 1:19 That is, a good conscience.
  6. 1 Timothy 1:19 Or, rejected.
  7. 1 Timothy 1:19 Or, their faith. That is, having ignored their conscience, they ran aground the Christian faith; or, their personal faith.

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