提摩太前书 1
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
Paul, the apostle of Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Jesus Christ our hope;
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！
to Timothy, my beloved son in the faith. Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
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，
As I exhorted you to remain in Ephesus, I going into Macedonia, in order that you may command certain ones not to teach heterodoxy,
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。
nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which present questions, rather than the economy of God which is in faith:
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。
but the end of the commandment is divine love out of a clean heart and a good conscience and faith free from hypocrisy:
6 有人偏离这些，反去讲虚浮的话，
from which certain ones having deflected have gone out into empty talking,
7 想要作教法师，却不明白自己所讲说的所论定的。
wishing to be teachers of the law, not knowing either what they are saying, or concerning what things they do affirm.
8 我们知道律法原是好的，只要人用得合宜；
But we know that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully;
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，
knowing this, that the law is not made for the righteous, but for the unrighteous and disorderly, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and the profane, for patricides, matricides and homocides,
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。
for fornicators, for Sodomites, for kidnapers, for liars, for perjurers, and if any thing else is opposed to healthy teaching;
11 这是照着可称颂之 神交托我荣耀福音说的。
according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, with which I am intrusted.
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。
I give thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord, the one having filled me up with dynamite, because he considered me faithful, having put me in the ministry;
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。
being antecedently a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and an insulter: but I obtained mercy, because I did it in unbelief being ignorant;
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。
but the grace of our Lord with faith and the divine love which is in Christ Jesus superabounded.
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。
It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:
but on this account I obtained mercy, in order that Jesus Christ might in me the chief show forth all longsuffering, for an example of those about to believe on him unto eternal life. (aiōnios g166)
But to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, be honor and glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen. (aiōn g165)
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。
This charge I commit unto you, O child Timothy, according to the prophecies that went before on you, that you may war a beautiful warfare in the same;
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。
having faith and a good conscience; which some having cast away have made shipwreck concerning the faith;
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。
of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
