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Yet I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/1-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>and the grace of our Lord was more than abundant, with the faith and love which are <i>found</i> in Christ Jesus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/1-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost <i>of all.</i> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/1-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/1-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, <i>be</i> honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/1-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>This command I entrust to you, Timothy, <i>my</i> son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/1-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_timothy/1-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_timothy/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I thank him that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to his'service;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_timothy/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I give thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/1_timothy/1.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_timothy/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I thank him that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to his service;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_timothy/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_timothy/1.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />I am thankful to Him who made me strong--even Christ Jesus our Lord--because He has judged me to be faithful and has put me into His service,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_timothy/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_timothy/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And I give thanks to him who enabled me -- Christ Jesus our Lord -- that he did reckon me stedfast, having put me to the ministration,<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_gospel_of_the_glory.htm"> 'The Gospel of the Glory of the Happy God'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'The glorious gospel of the blessed God.'--1 TIM. i. 11. Two remarks of an expository character will prepare the way for our consideration of this text. The first is, that the proper rendering is that which is given in the Revised Version--'the gospel of the glory,' not the 'glorious gospel.' The Apostle is not telling us what kind of thing the Gospel is, but what it is about. He is dealing not with its quality, but with its contents. It is a Gospel which reveals, has to do with, is the manifestation <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_gospel_of_the_glory.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_gospel_in_small.htm">The Gospel in Small</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.'--1 TIM. i. 15. Condensation is a difficult art. There are few things drier and more unsatisfactory than small books on great subjects, abbreviated statements of large systems. Error lurks in summaries, and yet here the whole fulness of God's communication to men is gathered into a sentence; tiny as a diamond, and flashing like it. My text is the one precious drop of essence, distilled <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_gospel_in_small.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_chief_of_sinners.htm">The Chief of Sinners</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Of whom I am chief.'--1 TIM. i. 15. The less teachers of religion talk about themselves the better; and yet there is a kind of personal reference, far removed from egotism and offensiveness. Few such men have ever spoken more of themselves than Paul did, and yet none have been truer to his motto: 'We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus.' For the scope of almost all his personal references is the depreciation of self, and the magnifying of the wonderful mercy which drew him to Jesus Christ. Whenever <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_chief_of_sinners.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/a_test_case.htm">A Test Case</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe.'--1 TIM. i. 16. The smallest of God's creatures, if it were only a gnat dancing in a sunbeam, has a right to have its well-being considered as an end of God's dealings. But no creature is so isolated or great as that it has a right to have its well-being regarded as the sole end of God's dealings. That is true about all His blessings and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/a_test_case.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_glory_of_the_king.htm">The Glory of the King</a><br></span><span class="snippet">'Now, unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.'--1 TIM. i. 17. With this burst of irrepressible praise the Apostle ends his reference to his own conversion as a transcendent, standing instance of the infinite love and transforming power of God. Similar doxologies accompany almost all his references to the same fact. This one comes from the lips of 'Paul the aged,' looking back from almost the close of a life which owed many sorrows <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions_of_holy_scripture_b/the_glory_of_the_king.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Alexander Maclaren—</span><span class="citation2">Expositions of Holy Scripture</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_ix_st_pauls_wish.htm">St. Paul's Wish to be Accursed from Christ. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">"For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." Few characters more remarkable than that of St. Paul, are to be found in history. He is introduced to our acquaintance on a tragical occasion--the martyrdom of Stephen, where he appears an accomplice with murderers--"he was standing by and consenting to his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him." The circumstances of Paul's conversion to Christianity were very remarkable, and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/lee/sermons_on_various_important_subjects/sermon_ix_st_pauls_wish.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Andrew Lee et al—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Various Important Subjects</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/robertson/sermons_preached_at_brighton/xix_the_lawful_and_unlawful.htm">The Lawful and Unlawful Use of Law. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">Preached June 27, 1852. THE LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL USE OF LAW. (A FRAGMENT.) "But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully."--1 Tim. i. 8. It is scarcely ever possible to understand a passage without some acquaintance with the history of the circumstances under which it was written. At Ephesus, over which Timothy was bishop, people had been bewildered by the teaching of converted Jews, who mixed the old leaven of Judaism with the new spirituality of Christianity. They maintained the <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/robertson/sermons_preached_at_brighton/xix_the_lawful_and_unlawful.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frederick W. Robertson—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons Preached at Brighton</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/the_glorious_gospel.htm">The Glorious Gospel</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Our text is one that pride would never prompt a man to select. It is quite impossible to flourish about it, it is so simple. Human nature is apt to cry, "Well I cannot preach upon that text--it is too plain; there is no mystery in it; I cannot show my learning: it is just a plain, common-sense announcement--I scarcely would wish to take it, for it lowers the man, however much it may exalt the Master." So, expect nothing but the text from me this morning, and the simplest possible explanation of it. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_4_1858/the_glorious_gospel.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 4: 1858</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xi_now_the_end.htm">"Now the End of the Commandment is Charity Out of a Pure Heart, and a Good Conscience, and Faith Unfeigned. "</a><br></span><span class="snippet">[It is extremely probable that this was one of the probationary discourses which the author delivered before the Presbytery of Glasgow, previous to his ordination. The following is an extract from the Record of that Presbytery: "Dec. 5, 1649. The qlk daye Mr. Hew Binnen made his popular sermon 1 Tim. i. ver. 5 'The end of ye commandment is charity.'--Ordaines Mr. Hew Binnen to handle his controversie this day fifteen dayes, De satisfactione Christi."--Ed.] 1 Tim. ii. 5.--"Now the end of the commandment <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/binning/the_works_of_the_rev_hugh_binning/sermon_xi_now_the_end.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Hugh Binning—</span><span class="citation2">The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/beveridge/private_thoughts_upon_a_christian_life/thoughts_upon_the_imitation_of.htm">Thoughts Upon the Imitation of Christ. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">IF we seriously consider with our selves that Wonder of all Wonders, that Mystery of all Mysteries, the Incarnation of the Son of God, it may justly strike us into Astonishment, and an Admiration what should be the reason and the end of it; why the great and glorious, the almighty and eternal God, should take our weak and finite Nature into his infinite and incomprehensible Person; why the Creator of all things should himself become a Creature; and he that made the World be himself made into it; <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/beveridge/private_thoughts_upon_a_christian_life/thoughts_upon_the_imitation_of.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">William Beveridge—</span><span class="citation2">Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/beveridge/private_thoughts_upon_a_christian_life/thoughts_upon_worldly-riches_sect_ii.htm">Thoughts Upon Worldly-Riches. Sect. Ii. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">TIMOTHY after his Conversion to the Christian Faith, being found to be a Man of great Parts, Learning, and Piety, and so every way qualified for the work of the Ministry, St. Paul who had planted a Church at Ephesus the Metropolis or chief City of all Asia, left him to dress and propagate it, after his departure from it, giving him Power to ordain Elders or Priests, and to visit and exercise Jurisdiction over them, to see they did not teach false Doctrines, 1 Tim. i. 3. That they be unblameable in <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/beveridge/private_thoughts_upon_a_christian_life/thoughts_upon_worldly-riches_sect_ii.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">William Beveridge—</span><span class="citation2">Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_timothy/1-12.htm">1 Timothy 1:12 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_timothy/1-12.htm">1 Timothy 1:12 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_timothy/1-12.htm">1 Timothy 1:12 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_timothy/1-12.htm">1 Timothy 1:12 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_timothy/1-12.htm">1 Timothy 1:12 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/1_timothy/1-12.htm">1 Timothy 1:12 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/1_timothy/1-12.htm">1 Timothy 1:12 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_timothy/1-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Timothy 1:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Timothy 1:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_timothy/1-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Timothy 1:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Timothy 1:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/1_timothy/1-12.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>