1 Timothy 1:19 - Easy To Read Version Continue to have faith and do what you know is right. Some people have not done this. Their faith has been destroyed. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Holding fast to faith (that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence) and having a good (clear) conscience. By rejecting and thrusting from them [their conscience], some individuals have made shipwreck of their faith. American Standard Version (1901) holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith: Common English Bible because you have faith and a good conscience. Some people have ruined their faith because they refused to listen to their conscience, Catholic Public Domain Version holding to faith and good conscience, against those who, by rejecting these things, have made a shipwreck of the faith. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith. |
(It is necessary for there to be differences among you. That is the way to make it clear which ones of you are really doing right.)
If you try to be made right with God through the law, then your life with Christ is finished—you have left God’s grace (kindness).
The goal of this command is for people to have love. To have this love people must have a pure heart, they must do what they know is right, and they must have true faith.
They must follow the faith (truth) that God made known to us and always do what they know is right.
Keeping your faith is like running a race. Try as hard as you can to win that race. Be sure you get that life that continues forever. You were called to have that life. And you confessed the great truth \{about Christ\} in a way that many people heard you.
Some people say that they have that “knowledge.” Those people have left the \{true\} faith (teaching).
People who want to become rich bring temptations to themselves. They are caught in a trap. They begin to want many foolish things that will hurt them. Those things ruin and destroy people.
They have left the true teaching. They say that the rising from death \{of all people\} has already happened. And those two men are destroying the faith of some people.
People will stop listening to the truth. They will begin to follow the teaching in false stories.
An elder must faithfully follow the truth the same as we teach it. An elder must be able to help people by using true and right teaching. And he must be able to show the people who are against the true teaching that they are wrong.
We all share together with Christ. This is true if we continue until the end to have the sure faith we had in the beginning.
Those enemies of Christ were in our group. But they left us. They did not really belong with us. If they were really part of our group, then they would have stayed with us. But they left. This shows that none of them really belonged with us.
You followed my command to endure patiently. So I will keep you from the time of trouble that will come to the whole world. This trouble will test the people who live on the earth.
So don’t forget what you have received and heard. Obey it. Change your hearts and lives! You must wake up, or I will come to you \{and surprise you\} like a thief. You will not know when I will come.
I know the things you do. I have put an open door before you. No person can close it. I know that you are weak. But you have followed my teaching. You were not afraid to speak my name.