1 Timothy 1

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First Timothy 1 is Paul's charge to his younger colleague, left in Ephesus to stop teachers who had wandered into myths, genealogies, and speculation. Paul states that the goal of all instruction is love from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith; that the law is good when used rightly, aimed at the lawless rather than the righteous; and then, in the chapter's heart, tells his own story: a blasphemer, persecutor, and violent man shown mercy, so that Christ could display his patience in the worst of sinners. He ends with a doxology, a charge to fight the good fight, and a warning about two men who shipwrecked their faith.

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First Timothy 1 is a letter from an old apostle to a young pastor in a hard post. Timothy has been left in Ephesus to deal with teachers who have wandered from the gospel into myths, genealogies, and confident talk about the law that they do not understand. Paul's instructions are brief and clear. The goal of all teaching is love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and sincere faith. The law is good if it is used for what it is for, to name and restrain lawlessness, and it points beyond itself to the gospel. Then Paul does something that no false teacher would do: he tells the truth about himself. He was a blasphemer, a persecutor, a violent man. He was shown mercy. The grace of the Lord overflowed to him, and the reason, he says, was so that Christ Jesus could display his perfect patience in the worst of sinners as an example for everyone who would believe afterward. The trustworthy saying at the center of the chapter is the gospel in one line: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Paul cannot say it without breaking into praise, to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God. Then he hands the charge to Timothy: fight the good fight, hold on to faith and a good conscience, and remember the two men who let go of both and were shipwrecked.

Wichtige Bibelstellen

1 Timothy 1:3-7 1 Timothy 1:8-11 1 Timothy 1:12-17 1 Timothy 1:18-20 Acts 9:1-6

Historischer und literarischer Kontext

Paul writes to Timothy, whom he calls his true child in the faith, after leaving him in Ephesus while traveling to Macedonia. The false teaching combined Jewish law, speculative genealogies, and ascetic rules; later chapters mention forbidding marriage and certain foods. The letter is one of the three Pastoral Epistles, concerned with ordering church life and guarding the gospel in the generation after the apostles. Paul's account of his own past refers to the persecution of the church described in Acts 8 and 9.

Wie sich das Kapitel entfaltet

Verses 1 and 2 greet Timothy. Verses 3 to 7 describe the false teachers and the true goal of instruction, love. Verses 8 to 11 explain the proper use of the law, with a vice list that echoes the Ten Commandments and ends in the gospel. Verses 12 to 17 are Paul's testimony: strengthened, appointed, formerly a blasphemer, shown mercy, the trustworthy saying that Christ came to save sinners of whom he is the worst, and a doxology to the King eternal. Verses 18 to 20 charge Timothy to fight the good fight, holding faith and a good conscience, unlike Hymenaeus and Alexander.

Warum dieses Kapitel wichtig ist

First Timothy 1:15, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst," is the first of the five "trustworthy sayings" in the Pastoral Epistles and one of the most compact statements of the gospel in the New Testament. Paul presents his own conversion as the pattern for everyone who will believe: if the worst could be shown mercy, no one is beyond it. The chapter's definition of the goal of teaching as love, not knowledge or control, and its insistence that the law is good when used legitimately, have guided Christian teaching about doctrine and ethics ever since. The doxology of verse 17 is sung in churches around the world.

Auslegungsfrage im Blick behalten

Paul says he was shown mercy "because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief," which could sound as though ignorance earned the mercy. The next verses rule that out: grace overflowed, and the reason for his mercy was to display Christ's patience. The chapter holds Paul's real guilt and God's free mercy together without making one explain away the other, which is the tension of every conversion story.

Fragen zu diesem Kapitel

  • Paul says the goal of instruction is love from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith. How would teaching look different if that were its measure?
  • Why does Paul, writing to correct false teachers, stop to tell the story of his own conversion?
  • Faith and a good conscience are held together in verse 19, and abandoning one shipwrecks the other. How are the two connected?

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1 Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the commaundement of God oure savioure and Lorde Iesus Christ which is oure hope. 2 Vnto Timothe his naturall sonne in the fayth. Grace mercy and peace from God oure father and Lorde Iesus Christ oure Lorde. 3 As I besought the to abyde styll in Ephesus when I departed into Macedonia even so do that thou commaunde some that they teache no nother wise: 4 nether geve hede to fables and genealogies which are endlesse and brede doutes more then godly edyfyinge which is by fayth: 5 for the ende of the commaundement is love that cometh of a pure herte and of a good conscience and of fayth vnfayned: 6 from the which thinges some have erred and have turned vnto vayne iangelinge 7 because they wolde be doctours the scripture and yet vnderstonde not what they speake nether wherof they affirme. 8 We knowe that the lawe is good yf a man vse it lawfully 9 vnderstondinge this how that the lawe is not geven vnto a righteous man but vnto the vnrighteous and disobedient to the vngodly and to synners to vnholy and vnclean to murtherers of fathers and murtherers of mothers to manslears 10 and whormongers: to them that defile them selves with mankynde: to menstealers: to lyars and to periured and so forth yf ther be eny other thinge that is contrary to holsome doctrine 11 accordinge to the gospell of the glory of the blessed God which gospell is committed vnto me. 12 And I thanke Christ Iesus oure Lorde which hath made me stronge: for he counted me true and put me in office 13 when before I was a blasphemar and a persecuter and a tyraut. But I obtayned mercy because I dyd it ignorauntly thorow vnbelefe. 14 Neverthelater the grace of oure Lorde was more aboundaunt with fayth and love which is in Christ Iesu. 15 This is a true sayinge and by all meanes worthy to be receaved that Christ Iesus came into the world to save synners of whom I am chefe. 16 Notwithstondinge for this cause was mercy geve vnto me that Iesus Christ shuld fyrst shewe on me all longe pacience vnto the ensample of them which shall in tyme to come beleve on him vnto eternall lyfe. 17 So then vnto god kynge everlastinge immortall invisible and wyse only be honoure and prayse for ever and ever Amen. 18 This commaundement commit I vnto the sonne Timotheus accordynge to the prophisies which in tyme past were prophisied of the that thou in them shuldest fyght a good fyght 19 havinge fayth and good consciece which some have put awaye from them and as concerninge fayth have made shipwracke. 20 Of whose nombre is Himeneus and Alexander which I have delivered vnto Satan that they myght be taught not to blaspheme

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