Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Timothy+005   1 Timothy   Chapter 5 (ESV) 1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. 3 Honor widows who are truly widows. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Timothy+004   1 Timothy   Chapter 4  (ESV) 6 If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.7 Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness; 8 for while bodily training […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Timothy+003   1 Timothy   Chapter 3  (ESV) 1The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. 2 Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Timothy+002   1 Timothy   Chapter 2  (ESV) 1 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 3 This is good, and it is pleasing […]

Read chapter in full: www.biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=1Timothy+001   1 TIMOTHY   Introduction After Paul was released from prison in Rome, he discovered that leaders in the Ephesian church had distorted the genuine message they had first heard from Paul himself. They had misapplied certain Jewish practices and borrowed some others from the philosophies of the day. They restricted […]