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# 1 Timothy 1

1 Timothy 1 is chapter 1 of 6 in the First Letter to Timothy. Here are all 20 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He puts Timothy in mind of his charge and blesses God for the mercy he himself had received.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Timothy 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the authority of God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope,
2. to Timothy, beloved son in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
3. Now I asked you to remain at Ephesus, while I went into Macedonia, so that you would speak strongly against certain ones who have been teaching a different way,
4. against those who have been paying attention to fables and endless genealogies. These things present questions as if they were greater than the edification that is of God, which is in faith.
5. Now the goal of instruction is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.
6. Certain persons, wandering away from these things, have been turned aside to empty babbling,
7. desiring to be teachers of the law, but understanding neither the things that they themselves are saying, nor what they are affirming about these things.
8. But we know that the law is good, if one makes use of it properly.
9. Knowing this, that the law was not set in place for the just, but for the unjust and the insubordinate, for the impious and sinners, for the wicked and the defiled, for those who commit patricide, matricide, or homicide,
10. for fornicators, for males who sleep with males, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
11. which is in accord with the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, the Gospel which has been entrusted to me.
12. I give thanks to him who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he has considered me faithful, placing me in the ministry,
13. though previously I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contemptuous. But then I obtained the mercy of God. For I had been acting ignorantly, in unbelief.
14. And so the grace of our Lord has abounded greatly, with the faith and love that is in Christ Jesus.
15. It is a faithful saying, and worthy of acceptance by everyone, that Christ Jesus came into this world to bring salvation to sinners, among whom I am first.
16. But it was for this reason that I obtained mercy, so that in me as first, Christ Jesus would display all patience, for the instruction of those who would believe in him unto eternal life.
17. So then, to the King of ages, to the immortal, invisible, solitary God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
18. This precept I commend to you, my son Timothy, in accord with the prophets who preceded you: that you serve among them like a soldier in a good war,
19. holding to faith and good conscience, against those who, by rejecting these things, have made a shipwreck of the faith.
20. Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they may learn not to blaspheme.

## 1 Timothy 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Paulus Apostolus Jesu Christi secundum imperium Dei Salvatoris nostri, et Christi Jesu spei nostræ,
2. Timotheo dilecto filio in fide. Gratia, misericordia, et pax a Deo Patre, et Christo Jesu Domino nostro.
3. Sicut rogavi te ut remaneres Ephesi cum irem in Macedoniam, ut denuntiares quibusdam ne aliter docerent,
4. neque intenderent fabulis, et genealogiis interminatis: quæ quæstiones præstant magis quam ædificationem Dei, quæ est in fide.
5. Finis autem præcepti est caritas de corde puro, et conscientia bona, et fide non ficta.
6. A quibus quidam aberrantes, conversi sunt in vaniloquium,
7. volentes esse legis doctores, non intelligentes neque quæ loquuntur, neque de quibus affirmant.
8. Scimus autem quia bona est lex si quis ea legitime utatur:
9. sciens hoc quia lex justo non est posita, sed injustis, et non subditis, impiis, et peccatoribus, sceleratis, et contaminatis, parricidis, et matricidis, homicidis,
10. fornicariis, masculorum concubitoribus, plagiariis, mendacibus, et perjuris, et si quid aliud sanæ doctrinæ adversatur,
11. quæ est secundum Evangelium gloriæ beati Dei, quod creditum est mihi.
12. Gratias ago ei, qui me confortavit, Christo Jesu Domino nostro, quia fidelem me existimavit, ponens in ministerio:
13. qui prius blasphemus fui, et persecutor, et contumeliosus: sed misericordiam Dei consecutus sum, quia ignorans feci in incredulitate.
14. Superabundavit autem gratia Domini nostri cum fide, et dilectione, quæ est in Christo Jesu.
15. Fidelis sermo, et omni acceptione dignus: quod Christus Jesus venit in hunc mundum peccatores salvos facere, quorum primus ego sum.
16. Sed ideo misericordiam consecutus sum: ut in me primo ostenderet Christus Jesus omnem patientiam ad informationem eorum, qui credituri sunt illi, in vitam æternam.
17. Regi autem sæculorum immortali, invisibili, soli Deo honor et gloria in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.
18. Hoc præceptum commendo tibi, fili Timothee, secundum præcedentes in te prophetias, ut milites in illis bonam militiam,
19. habens fidem, et bonam conscientiam, quam quidam repellentes, circa fidem naufragaverunt:
20. ex quibus est Hymenæus, et Alexander: quos tradidi Satanæ, ut discant non blasphemare.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2518: Purification of the Heart ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2357: The Vocation to Chastity ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 545: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 142: Man's Response To God ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 162: The Characteristics of Faith ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 9: He means, that the just man doth good, and avoideth evil, not as compelled by the law, and merely for fear of the punishment appointed for transgressors; but voluntarily, and out of the love of God and virtue; and would do so, though there were no law.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Fri, Sep 10, 2027 (computed): Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14
- Sat, Sep 11, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Timothy 1:15-17
- Sun, Sep 17, 2028 (computed): Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time — Second Reading, 1 Timothy 1:12-17

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).