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1 Timóteo 1

ARC · Chapter 1/6

1Paulo, apostolo de Jesus Christo segundo o mandado de Deus, nosso Salvador, e do Senhor Jesus Christo, esperança nossa,

2A Timotheo meu verdadeiro filho na fé: graça, misericordia e paz da parte de Deus nosso Pae e da de Christo Jesus nosso Senhor.

3Como te roguei, quando parti para a Macedonia, que ficasses em Epheso, para advertires a alguns, que não ensinem outra doutrina,

4Nem se dêem a fabulas nem a genealogias interminaveis, que mais produzem questões do que edificação de Deus, que consiste na fé.

5Ora o fim do mandamento é a caridade de um coração puro, e de uma boa consciencia, e de uma fé não fingida.

6Do que, desviando-se alguns, se entregaram a vãs contendas;

7Querendo ser doutores da lei, e não entendendo nem o que dizem nem o que affirmam.

8Porém bem sabemos que a lei é boa, se alguem d'ella usa legitimamente:

9Sabendo isto, que a lei não foi posta para o justo, mas para os injustos e obstinados, para os impios e peccadores, para os profanos e irreligiosos, para os parricidas e matricidas, para os homicidas,

10Para os fornicadores, para os sodomitas, para os roubadores de homens, para os mentirosos, para os perjuros, e para alguma outra coisa contraria á sã doutrina,

11Conforme o evangelho da gloria de Deus bemaventurado, que me foi confiado.

12E dou graças ao que me tem confortado, a Christo Jesus Senhor nosso, porque me teve por fiel, pondo-me no ministerio;

13A mim, que d'antes fui blasphemo, e perseguidor, e oppressor; porém foi-me feita misericordia, porquanto o fiz ignorantemente, na incredulidade.

14Mas a graça de nosso Senhor superabundou com a fé e amor que ha em Jesus Christo.

15Esta é uma palavra fiel, e digna de toda a acceitação, que Christo Jesus veiu ao mundo, para salvar os peccadores, dos quaes eu sou o principal.

16Mas por isso me foi feita misericordia, para que em mim, que sou o principal, Jesus Christo mostrasse toda a sua longanimidade, para exemplo dos que haviam de crêr n'elle para a vida eterna.

17Ora ao Rei dos seculos, immortal, invisivel, ao unico Deus seja honra e gloria para todo o sempre. Amen.

18Este mandamento te dou, meu filho Timotheo, que, segundo as prophecias que d'antes houve ácerca de ti, milites por ellas boa milicia;

19Retendo a fé, e a boa consciencia, rejeitando a qual alguns fizeram naufragio na fé.

20D'entre os quaes foram Hymeneo e Alexandre, os quaes entreguei a Satanaz, para que aprendam a não blasphemar.

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Summary

Paul instructs Timothy to combat false teachings in Ephesus and recalls his own conversion as an example of God's mercy. He reaffirms that the purpose of all instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart.

Explanation

Timothy stayed behind in Ephesus as a young leader responsible for correcting strange doctrines, including genealogical speculations and endless arguments that did not build up the faith. Paul, who once persecuted the church, uses his own story as living proof that no one is beyond the reach of God's grace. This personal testimony encourages Timothy to press on despite his youth and the opposition he faced. Today's practical application is to remember that the goal of any Christian teaching should always be genuine love, not victories in theoretical debates.

Fun facts

  • Ephesus was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire and home to the temple of Artemis, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, which made the local religious environment especially confused and syncretistic.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. 1 Timóteo 1:1Paul opens the letter introducing himself as an apostle by the commandment of God. This is the first of two personal letters he wrote to Timothy, a young man Paul had left in charge of the church in Ephesus to organize the community and confront false teachers.
  2. 1 Timóteo 1:2Timothy was like a spiritual son to Paul, who had brought him along on missionary journeys since he was young. Paul opens the letter with his usual greeting: grace, mercy, and peace from God.
  3. 1 Timóteo 1:3Timothy had stayed in charge of the church in Ephesus while Paul continued traveling, precisely to deal with a group teaching ideas different from what Paul had preached there. The whole letter is written in that tone: practical instructions for someone younger handling a community in conflict.
  4. 1 Timóteo 1:4It seems some teachers in Ephesus were spending time on lists of ancestors and speculative stories, perhaps tied to strange interpretations of the Old Testament, that produced more argument than edification. Paul doesn’t spell out exactly what these fables were, he just asks Timothy not to get distracted by them.
  5. 1 Timóteo 1:5Paul sums up the goal of all this correction: it isn’t about winning an argument, it’s about arriving at genuine love, born of a pure heart and a sincere faith, with no hidden agenda.
  6. 1 Timóteo 1:6Some teachers in Ephesus traded this simple goal of love for endless disputes, more interested in winning arguments than in building anyone up.
  7. 1 Timóteo 1:7These teachers wanted to be authorities on the law of Moses, but Paul says not even they understood properly what they were teaching.
  8. 1 Timóteo 1:8Paul makes clear he isn’t attacking the law itself, it is good; the problem is the wrong way these teachers were using it.
  9. 1 Timóteo 1:9This list of behaviors the law condemns includes “menstealers,” which refers specifically to those who kidnapped people to sell as slaves — a serious crime recognized under both Jewish and Roman law. Paul is showing, through a list of extreme examples, exactly who the law is for: to restrain those who harm others, not those who already act rightly.
  10. 1 Timóteo 1:10The list of behaviors the law condemns continues with lying and perjury, all of it contrary to the sound doctrine Paul is defending.
  11. 1 Timóteo 1:11Paul calls this teaching “the glorious gospel of the blessed God,” the message he was entrusted to proclaim, the standard by which all doctrine should be judged.
  12. 1 Timóteo 1:12Paul thanks Christ for having trusted him, someone he saw as an unlikely choice, to carry out the work of the ministry.
  13. 1 Timóteo 1:13Before his conversion, Paul actively persecuted Christians, and that’s how he describes himself here. He credits the mercy he received to having acted, at the time, out of ignorance.
  14. 1 Timóteo 1:14Despite the heavy past he has just described, Paul says the grace of God was exceeding abundant, coming along with faith and love through Christ.
  15. 1 Timóteo 1:15Paul describes himself as the worst example of a sinner, recalling that before his conversion he actively persecuted Christians. He uses his own story as proof that no one is beyond the reach of this message, since in his own view he was the most extreme case.
  16. 1 Timóteo 1:16Paul uses his own conversion as living proof: if even he, who considers himself the worst example, received mercy, that shows God’s patience toward anyone who would come to believe afterward.
  17. 1 Timóteo 1:17After telling his own story, Paul interrupts the letter with a brief, spontaneous burst of praise to God, eternal and invisible, something common in his letters whenever the subject moves him.
  18. 1 Timóteo 1:18Paul turns back to address Timothy directly, reminding him that prophecies had already been spoken over him before, probably at the moment he was commissioned. He asks him to keep waging this “good warfare” with a soldier’s seriousness.
  19. 1 Timóteo 1:19Paul links faith and a good conscience as things that go together: abandoning one can end up sinking the other, like a ship that suffers shipwreck.
  20. 1 Timóteo 1:20This harsh expression was an ancient way of describing someone’s exclusion from the church community — without the protection and care of that community, the person is left exposed to what Paul calls the dominion of Satan out in the world. It isn’t a magic curse, it’s the language of severe communal discipline, applied to two men, Hymenaeus and Alexander, who had turned away from the faith.

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