FOR A PATTERN

1 Timothy 1:12-20

 AND I THANK CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD, 

WHO HATH ENABLED ME, 

FOR HE COUNTED ME FAITHFUL, 

PUTTING ME INTO THE MINISTRY; 

WHO WAS BEFORE A BLASPHEMER,

 AND A PERSECUTOR, AND INJURIOUS: 

BUT I OBTAINED MERCY,

 BECAUSE I DID IT 

IGNORANTLY IN UNBELIEF. 

AND 

THE GRACE

 OF OUR LORD WAS 

EXCEEDING ABUNDANT 

WITH 

FAITH AND LOVE 

WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS.

  THIS IS A FAITHFUL SAYING, 

AND 

WORTHY OF ALL ACCEPTATION,

 THAT CHRIST JESUS 

CAME INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE SINNERS;

 OF WHOM I AM CHIEF. 

HOWBEIT FOR THIS CAUSE I OBTAINED MERCY,

 THAT IN ME FIRST 

JESUS CHRIST 

MIGHT SHEW FORTH ALL LONGSUFFERING, 

FOR A PATTERN 

TO THEM WHICH SHOULD 

HEREAFTER BELIEVE ON HIM 

TO LIFE EVERLASTING. 

NOW UNTO 

THE KING ETERNAL,

 IMMORTAL,

 INVISIBLE, 

THE ONLY WISE GOD, 

BE HONOUR AND GLORY

 FOR EVER AND EVER AMEN. 

THIS CHARGE I COMMIT UNTO THEE, 

SON TIMOTHY, 

ACCORDING TO THE PROPHECIES 

WHICH WENT BEFORE ON THEE, 

THAT THOU BY THEM 

MIGHTEST 

WAR A GOOD WARFARE; 

HOLDING FAITH, 

AND 

A GOOD CONSCIENCE,

 WHICH SOME HAVING PUT AWAY

 CONCERNING FAITH

 HAVE MADE SHIPWRECK: 

OF WHOM IS HYMENAEUS AND ALEXANDER;

 WHOM I HAVE DELIVERED UNTO SATAN,

 THAT THEY MAY 

LEARN NOT TO BLASPHEME.  

LOVE