1 Tm 1:3-11

Warning Against False Doctrine. 3^* I repeat the request I made of you when I was on my way to Macedonia,^c that you stay in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to teach false doctrines 4^* or to concern themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the plan of God that is to be received by faith.^d 5The aim of this instruction is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.^e 6Some people have deviated from these and turned to meaningless talk,^f 7wanting to be teachers of the law, but without understanding either what they are saying or what they assert with such assurance.

8^* We know that the law is good, provided that one uses it as law,^g 9with the understanding that law is meant not for a righteous person but for the lawless and unruly, the godless and sinful, the unholy and profane, those who kill their fathers or mothers, murderers, 10the unchaste, sodomites,^* kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound teaching,^h 11according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I have been entrusted.ⁱ