1 Timotius 3:14

Conduct in God’s Church

3:14 I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions ¹  to you

1 Timotius 6:20

Conclusion

6:20 O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid ²  the profane chatter and absurdities ³  of so-called “knowledge.” ⁴ 

1 Timotius 5:18

5:18 For the scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” ⁵  and, “The worker deserves his pay.” ⁶ 

1 Timotius 3:15

3:15 in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves ⁷  in the household of God, because it is ⁸  the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

1 Timotius 6:21

6:21 By professing it, some have strayed from the faith. ⁹  Grace be with you all. ¹⁰ 

1 Timotius 1:7

1:7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently. ¹¹ 

1 Timotius 5:8

5:8 But if someone does not provide for his own, ¹²  especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

[3:14]  ¹ tn Grk “these things.”

[3:14]  sn These instructions refer to the instructions about local church life, given in 1 Tim 2:1–3:13.

[6:20]  ² tn Grk “avoiding.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[6:20]  ³ tn Or “contradictions.”

[6:20]  ⁴ tn Grk “the falsely named knowledge.”

[5:18]  ⁵ sn A quotation from Deut 25:4.

[5:18]  ⁶ sn A quotation from Luke 10:7.

[3:15]  ⁷ tn Grk “how it is necessary to behave.”

[3:15]  ⁸ tn Grk “which is” (but the relative clause shows the reason for such conduct).

[6:21]  ⁹ tn Grk “have deviated concerning the faith.”

[6:21]  ¹⁰ tc Most witnesses (א² D¹ Ψ Ï sy) conclude this letter with ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”). Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, the earliest and best witnesses (א* A D* F G 33 81 1739* 1881 it sa) lack the particle, indicating that the letter concluded with “Grace be with you all.”

[6:21]  tn Grk “with you” (but the Greek pronoun indicates the meaning is plural here).

[1:7]  ¹¹ tn The Greek reinforces this negation: “understand neither what they are saying nor the things they insist on…”

[5:8]  ¹² tn That is, “his own relatives.”