1 Timothy

No. 168 1 Timothy 2:8-15
First Timothy is a letter of instruction to a younger colleague overseeing the church at Ephesus, a church the letter says is being disrupted by false teaching. This passage gives directions for how men and...
No. 498 1 Timothy 4:1-5
Paul warns Timothy that in later times some will drift away from the faith, following deceptive teachings, and he names a specific shape the error will take. These teachers will forbid marriage and command...
No. 514 1 Timothy 6:17-21
Paul gives Timothy a specific charge to deliver to the wealthy believers in his church, and it is worth hearing because most of us, by the standards of the world and of history, are among the rich he is...
No. 537 1 Timothy 6:6-10
Paul hands Timothy a phrase worth memorizing: godliness with contentment is great gain. In a letter partly aimed at people who measured gain in money, he redefines the word. The truly profitable thing, the...
No. 805 1 Timothy 4:12-16
Timothy is young, and he has been handed real responsibility over a church, and Paul knows exactly what that means: older people will look at him and quietly discount him. Paul's counsel is not what a young...
No. 1459 1 Timothy 3:1-7
Paul lists the qualifications for one who would be an overseer in the church. He must be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to...
No. 1516 1 Timothy 4:6-11
Paul counsels Timothy on what makes a good servant of Christ. Refuse the silly myths and empty tales, he says, and train yourself for godliness. For bodily training is of some value, but godliness is of value...
No. 1884 1 Timothy 3:8-16
Paul sets out the qualifications for those who would serve as deacons in the church: dignified, sincere, not given to much wine, not greedy, holding the faith with a clear conscience. And he adds a principle:...
No. 1961 1 Timothy 5:17-25
Paul gives Timothy instructions for the church, including how to handle accusations against its leaders. Do not receive an accusation against an elder, he says, except on the word of two or three witnesses....
No. 2421 1 Timothy 1:8-20
Paul tells Timothy his own story as a case in point of grace. He had been a blasphemer, a persecutor, a violent man, and yet he received mercy, and Christ counted him faithful and put him into service. Then...
No. 2855 1 Timothy 6:1-5
Paul instructs servants to honor their masters so that God's name and teaching are not brought into disrepute, and those with believing masters to serve them all the more, not less. Then he turns to a certain...
No. 3347 1 Timothy 5:9-16
Paul gives practical guidance about caring for widows in the church, and behind the details lies a principle of ordered compassion. The church is to support widows who are truly alone and in need, and Paul...
No. 3429 1 Timothy 2:1-7
Paul urges that prayers and thanksgivings be made for all people, including kings and those in authority, so that God's people may lead peaceful and godly lives. Prayer is to reach even to rulers, whatever...
No. 3455 1 Timothy 5:1-8
Paul gives instructions that turn the church into a family. Treat older men as fathers, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. The community of faith is to...
No. 3864 1 Timothy 6:11-16
Paul gives Timothy a charge that rings with urgency. But you, man of God, flee these things, he says, meaning the love of money and its snares, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness,...
No. 3883 1 Timothy 1:1-7
Paul reminds Timothy why he left him at Ephesus: to guard the church against those who teach a different doctrine and devote themselves to speculations, myths and endless genealogies, that produce arguments...