17 Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, to the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever[a]. Amen.

Paul’s Charge to Timothy

18 I am setting before you this instruction, Timothy my child, in accordance with the prophecies spoken long ago about you, in order that by them you may fight the good fight, 19 having faith and a good conscience, which some, because they[b] have rejected these, have suffered shipwreck concerning their faith,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 1:17 Literally “to the ages of the ages”
  2. 1 Timothy 1:19 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“have rejected”) which is understood as causal