This letter is to all of you in Rome that God has called to be his holy people. {\cf2\super [8]} You are people that God loves.
1 Timothy 1:2 - Easy To Read Version To Timothy. You are \{like\} a true son to me because you believe. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To Timothy, my true son in the faith: Grace (spiritual blessing and favor), mercy, and [heart] peace [be yours] from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. American Standard Version (1901) unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. Common English Bible To Timothy, my true child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. Catholic Public Domain Version to Timothy, beloved son in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord. |
This letter is to all of you in Rome that God has called to be his holy people. {\cf2\super [8]} You are people that God loves.
I pray that God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ will be good to you and give you peace.
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord because he trusted me and gave me this work of serving him. He gives me strength.
Timothy, you are \{like\} a son to me. I am giving you a command. This command agrees with the prophecies {\cf2\super [5]} that were told about you in the past. I tell you these things so that you can remember those prophecies and fight the good fight \{of faith\}.
Timothy, God has trusted you with many things. Keep those things safe. Stay away from people who talk about useless things that are not from God. Stay away from people who argue against \{the truth\}. Those people use something they call “knowledge”—but it is really not knowledge.
To Timothy. You are \{like\} a dear son to me. Grace (kindness), mercy, and peace to you from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
Timothy, you are \{like\} a son to me. Be strong in the grace (kindness) that we have in Christ Jesus.
To Titus. You are \{like\} a true son to me in the faith we share together.
Teach the older men to have self-control, to be serious, and to be wise. They should be strong in the faith, strong in love, and strong in patience.
Onesimus was separated from you for a short time. Maybe that happened so that you could have him back forever—
God planned long ago to choose you by making you his holy people. {\cf2\super [2]} Making you holy is the Spirit’s {\cf2\super [3]} work. God wanted you to obey him and to be made clean by the blood (death) of Jesus Christ. Grace (kindness) and peace be yours more and more.