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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1TI-1:1",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.1",
        "text": "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus our hope;"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1TI-1:2",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.2",
        "text": "unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1TI-1:3",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.3",
        "text": "As I exhorted thee to tarry at Ephesus, when I was going into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1TI-1:4",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.4",
        "text": "neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now]."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1TI-1:5",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.5",
        "text": "But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1TI-1:6",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.6",
        "text": "from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1TI-1:7",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.7",
        "text": "desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1TI-1:8",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.8",
        "text": "But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1TI-1:9",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.9",
        "text": "as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1TI-1:10",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.10",
        "text": "for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1TI-1:11",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.11",
        "text": "according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1TI-1:12",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.12",
        "text": "I thank him that enabled me, [even] Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to [his] service;"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1TI-1:13",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.13",
        "text": "though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "1TI-1:14",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.14",
        "text": "and the grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "1TI-1:15",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.15",
        "text": "Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:"
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "1TI-1:16",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.16",
        "text": "howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "1TI-1:17",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.17",
        "text": "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, [be] honor and glory forever and ever. Amen."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "1TI-1:18",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.18",
        "text": "This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "1TI-1:19",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.19",
        "text": "holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "1TI-1:20",
        "verseRef": "1TI.1.20",
        "text": "of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme."
      }
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