1 Timothy 1:18-20

New International Reader's Version

Paul Commands Timothy

¹⁸ My son Timothy, I am giving you this command. It is in keeping with the prophecies once made about you. By remembering them, you can fight the battle well. ¹⁹ Then you will hold on to faith. You will hold on to a good sense of what is right and wrong. Some have not accepted this knowledge of right and wrong. So they have destroyed their faith. They are like a ship that has sunk. ²⁰ Hymenaeus and Alexander are among them. I have handed them over to Satan. That will teach them not to speak evil things against God.