--- title: "1 Timothy: Summary & All 6 Chapters · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/ description: "The First Letter to Timothy, a pastoral letter in 6 chapters. Bp. Challoner’s summary of all 6 chapters, and the full text free." --- New Testament # The First Letter to Timothy The First Letter to Timothy is the fifteenth of the 27 books of the New Testament: 6 chapters and 113 verses. [Start reading: 1 Timothy 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/1/) [1](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/1/) [2](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/2/) [3](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/3/) [4](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/4/) [5](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/5/) [6](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/6/) ## About 1 Timothy About 1 Timothy · Pastoral letter First Timothy is written as Paul's instruction to his young delegate overseeing the church at Ephesus: how to silence speculative teachers, how to order public prayer, what to require of bishops and deacons, how to treat elders, widows, and wealth. With the other pastoral letters it bears Paul's name while many scholars see a later disciple applying his mind to a more settled church — a question the Church leaves open. It was written to make sound teaching and sound structure protect each other, so that the church of the living God remains the pillar and the foundation of truth. *1 Timothy in Bless* | | | |---|---| | Testament | New Testament — book 15 of 27, 61 of 73 in the Bible | | Canon | Protocanonical (in every Christian canon) | | Chapters | 6 | | Verses | 113, as Bless numbers them | | Latin | Clementine Vulgate, every chapter | | Bp. Challoner | Summaries of all 6 chapters · 8 notes | | Catechism | 29 paragraphs cite it | Chapter by chapter ## All 6 chapters, *in brief.* Bishop Richard Challoner’s summary of each chapter, from his revision of the Douay-Rheims (1749–52). Open a chapter for the full text. 1. ### [1 Timothy 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/1/) 20 verses He puts Timothy in mind of his charge and blesses God for the mercy he himself had received. 2. ### [1 Timothy 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/2/) 15 verses Prayers are to be said for all men, because God wills the salvation of all. Women are not to teach. 3. ### [1 Timothy 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/3/) 16 verses What sort of men are to be admitted into the clergy. The church is the pillar of truth. 4. ### [1 Timothy 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/4/) 16 verses He warns him against heretics, and exhorts him to the exercise of piety. 5. ### [1 Timothy 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/5/) 25 verses He gives him lessons concerning widows, and how he is to behave to his clergy. 6. ### [1 Timothy 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/6/) 21 verses Duties of servants. The danger of covetousness. Lessons for the rich. Bp. Richard Challoner · chapter summaries In the comments ## What the saints *said.* 4 quotations from 3 saints linked to passages of 1 Timothy in Bless. Each names the work it comes from. [St. Charles Borromeo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-charles-borromeo/) · on [1 Timothy 4:12](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/4/#v12) On this theme > Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing but live otherwise. Address to his clergy, 1584 [St. Charles Borromeo](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-charles-borromeo/) · on [1 Timothy 4:16](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/4/#v16) On this theme > Are you in charge of a parish? If so, do not neglect the parish of your own soul. Address at his last synod, 1584 [St. Polycarp](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-polycarp/) · on [1 Timothy 6:7](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/6/#v7) On this theme > The love of money is the beginning of all troubles. Knowing therefore that we brought nothing into the world and can carry nothing out, let us arm ourselves with the armor of righteousness. Letter to the Philippians, 4, c. 110 [St. Elizabeth Ann Seton](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-elizabeth-ann-seton/) · on [1 Timothy 6:8](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/6/#v8) Attributed > Live simply, so that all may simply live. Popular saying, source unconfirmed Coming up ## Read at *Mass.* From October 29, 2026 to October 28, 2027, 1 Timothy is read at the principal Mass on 8 days in the US calendar. The next 8 readings: | Date | Celebration | Reading | Citation | |---|---|---|---| | [Wed, Jan 6, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/01/06/) | Wednesday after Epiphany | Alleluia | [1 Timothy 3:16](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/3/) | | [Fri, Sep 10, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/10/) computed | Friday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/1/) | | [Sat, Sep 11, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/11/) computed | Saturday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [1 Timothy 1:15-17](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/1/) | | [Mon, Sep 13, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/13/) computed | St. John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church | First Reading | [1 Timothy 2:1-8](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/2/) | | [Wed, Sep 15, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/15/) computed | Our Lady of Sorrows | First Reading | [1 Timothy 3:14-16](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/3/) | | [Thu, Sep 16, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/16/) computed | Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and St. Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs | First Reading | [1 Timothy 4:12-16](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/4/) | | [Fri, Sep 17, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/17/) computed | Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [1 Timothy 6:2c-12](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/6/) | | [Sat, Sep 18, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/09/18/) computed | Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [1 Timothy 6:13-16](https://blessbible.app/bible/1-timothy/6/) | Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish. [Previous book The Second Letter to the Thessalonians](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-thessalonians/) [Next book The Second Letter to Timothy](https://blessbible.app/bible/2-timothy/)