1 Παύλος, απόστολος Ιησού Χριστού, κατ' επιταγήν Θεού του Σωτήρος ημών και Κυρίου Ιησού Χριστού της ελπίδος ημών, 2 προς Τιμόθεον, το γνήσιον τέκνον εις την πίστιν· είη χάρις, έλεος, ειρήνη από Θεού Πατρός ημών και Χριστού Ιησού του Κυρίου ημών. 3 Καθώς σε παρεκάλεσα απερχόμενος εις Μακεδονίαν, να προσμείνης εν Εφέσω, διά να παραγγείλης εις τινάς να μη ετεροδιδασκαλώσι 4 μηδέ να προσέχωσιν εις μύθους και γενεαλογίας απεράντους, αίτινες προξενούσι φιλονεικίας μάλλον παρά την εις την πίστιν οικοδομήν του Θεού, ούτω πράττε· 5 το δε τέλος της παραγγελίας είναι αγάπη εκ καθαράς καρδίας και συνειδήσεως αγαθής και πίστεως ανυποκρίτου, 6 από των οποίων αποπλανηθέντες τινές εξετράπησαν εις ματαιολογίαν. 7 Θέλοντες να ήναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι, ενώ δεν νοούσιν ούτε όσα λέγουσιν ούτε περί τίνων διϊσχυρίζονται. 8 Εξεύρομεν δε ότι ο νόμος είναι καλός, εάν τις μεταχειρίζηται αυτόν νομίμως, 9 γνωρίζων τούτο, ότι ο νόμος δεν ετέθη διά τον δίκαιον, αλλά διά τους ανόμους και ανυποτάκτους, τους ασεβείς και αμαρτωλούς, τους ανοσίους και βεβήλους, τους πατροκτόνους και μητροκτόνους, τους ανδροφόνους, 10 πόρνους, αρσενοκοίτας, ανδραποδιστάς, ψεύστας, επιόρκους, και ει τι άλλο αντιβαίνει εις την υγιαίνουσαν διδασκαλίαν, 11 κατά το ευαγγέλιον της δόξης του μακαρίου Θεού, το οποίον εγώ ενεπιστεύθην. 12 Και ευχαριστώ τον ενδυναμώσαντά με Ιησούν Χριστόν τον Κύριον ημών, ότι ενέκρινε πιστόν και έταξεν εις την διακονίαν εμέ, 13 τον πρότερον όντα βλάσφημον και διώκτην και υβριστήν· ηλεήθην όμως, διότι αγνοών έπραξα εν απιστία, 14 αλλ' υπερεπερίσσευσεν η χάρις του Κυρίου ημών μετά πίστεως και αγάπης της εν Χριστώ Ιησού. 15 Πιστός ο λόγος και πάσης αποδοχής άξιος, ότι ο Ιησούς Χριστός ήλθεν εις τον κόσμον διά να σώση τους αμαρτωλούς, των οποίων πρώτος είμαι εγώ· 16 αλλά διά τούτο ηλεήθην, διά να δείξη ο Ιησούς Χριστός εις εμέ πρώτον την πάσαν μακροθυμίαν, εις παράδειγμα των μελλόντων να πιστεύωσιν εις αυτόν εις ζωήν αιώνιον. 17 εις δε τον βασιλέα των αιώνων, τον άφθαρτον, τον αόρατον, τον μόνον σοφόν Θεόν, είη τιμή και δόξα εις τους αιώνας των αιώνων· αμήν. 18 Ταύτην την παραγγελίαν παραδίδω εις σε, τέκνον Τιμόθεε, κατά τας προγενομένας προφητείας περί σου, να στρατεύης κατ' αυτάς την καλήν στρατείαν, 19 έχων πίστιν και αγαθήν συνείδησιν, την οποίαν τινές αποβαλόντες εναυάγησαν εις την πίστιν· 20 εκ των οποίων είναι ο Υμέναιος και Αλέξανδρος, τους οποίους παρέδωκα εις τον Σατανάν, διά να μάθωσι να μη βλασφημώσι.
1 Timothy · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
1 Timothy 1 Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
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Alexander
A coppersmith who did Paul great harm; a man of the same name was also handed over to Satan with Hymenaeus, possibly the same person.
Cited in the guide: 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Timothy 4:14
Hymenaeus
A man who shipwrecked his faith; Paul handed him over to Satan to learn not to blaspheme, and he taught that the resurrection had already happened.
Cited in the guide: 1 Timothy 1:20; 2 Timothy 2:17
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Titus 1:3; Colossians 1:27; Acts 9:15; Jude 25; Galatians 1:1
- 2 Titus 1:4; 2 Timothy 1:2; 1 Corinthians 4:14–17; Philippians 2:19–22; Acts 16:1–3
- 3 1 Timothy 6:3; Galatians 1:6–7; 2 John 9–10; Titus 1:9–11; 2 John 7
- 4 1 Timothy 4:7; Titus 1:14; Titus 3:9; 2 Timothy 4:4; 2 Peter 1:16
- 5 1 Timothy 1:19; Galatians 5:22; 2 Timothy 2:22; Galatians 5:13–14; 2 Timothy 1:5
- 6 Titus 1:10; 2 Timothy 2:23–24; Titus 3:9; 1 Timothy 6:20–21; 1 Timothy 5:15
- 7 Romans 1:22; 2 Peter 2:12; 1 Timothy 6:4; Galatians 3:5; Galatians 5:3–4
- 8 Romans 7:12–13; Romans 7:16; Psalm 19:7–10; 2 Timothy 2:5; Galatians 3:21
- 9 Galatians 3:19; 1 Peter 4:18; Romans 5:20; Galatians 3:10–14; Galatians 5:23
- 10 1 Corinthians 6:9–10; Leviticus 18:22; 2 Timothy 4:3; Romans 1:26; Galatians 5:19–21
- 11 Galatians 2:7; Titus 1:3; 1 Timothy 6:15; Romans 2:16; 2 Corinthians 4:4
- 12 Philippians 4:13; 2 Timothy 4:17; 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Colossians 1:25; Philippians 2:11
- 13 Acts 8:3; Hebrews 6:4–8; 1 Peter 2:10; 2 Peter 2:21–22; Acts 9:13
- 14 2 Timothy 1:13; Ephesians 1:7–8; 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Peter 1:3; 2 Corinthians 13:14
- 15 Mark 2:17; Luke 19:10; John 3:16–17; John 12:47; John 1:12
- 16 1 Timothy 1:13; Ephesians 2:7; Psalm 25:11; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 5:11–12
- 17 Ephesians 3:20–21; Jude 25; 1 Timothy 6:15–16; Revelation 19:1; Revelation 17:14
- 18 1 Timothy 4:14; 2 Timothy 4:1–3; 1 Timothy 6:20; 2 Timothy 2:1–5; 2 Corinthians 10:3–4
- 19 1 Timothy 3:9; Revelation 3:10; 1 Peter 3:15–16; 1 Timothy 6:9; Titus 1:9
- 20 1 Corinthians 5:4–5; 1 Corinthians 11:32; 2 Timothy 2:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:15; Revelation 3:19
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[The R.V. omits kuriouand translates: Christ Jesus our hope, tes elpidos hemon.] 1. Great and admirable is the dignity of an Apostle, and we find Paul constantly setting forth the causes of it, not as if he took the honor to himself, but as intrusted with it, and being under the necessity of so doing.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
Inasmuch as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says, "minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith," and by means of their craftily-constructed plausibilities draw away the minds of the inexperienced and take them captive, [I have felt constrained, my dear friend, to compose the …
He would not be long with us, yet left us not; for He departed thither, whence He never departed, because "the world was made by Him." And in this world He was, and into this world He came to save sinners, unto whom my soul doth confess, that He may heal it, for it hath sinned against Him.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… of vipers." For that animal too is said to destroy the mother that is in travail with her, and eating through her belly, thus to come forth unto light; which kind of thing these men also did being "murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers," and destroying their instructors with their own hands.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
But the grace of God was exceeding abundant in me.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)