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THE MESSAGE
1 Timothy 1:5
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Now the goal of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
Now the end of the commandement is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith vnfained.
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from a sincere faith.
The purpose of this command is for people to have love, a love that comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a true faith.
But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
But the goal of our command is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and an unhypocritical faith.
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.
You must teach people to have genuine love, as well as a good conscience and true faith.
The purpose of this order is to promote love from a clean heart, from a good conscience and from sincere trust.
But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
My purpose in telling you to do this is to promote love—the kind of love shown by those whose thoughts are pure, who do what they know is right, and whose faith in God is real.
For the end of the commaundement is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith vnfained.
Now the fulfillment of the commandment is love out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of a true faith:
The purpose of this order is to arouse the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a genuine faith.
But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,
but the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience, and faith not pretended,
But the goal of our instruction is love [which springs] from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:
But the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
The goal of this instruction is love that flows from a pure heart, from a clear conscience, and from a sincere faith.Romans 13:8,10; Galatians 5:14; 2 Timothy 2:22;">[xr]
5 But the end [fn] of the commandment is love, from a pure heart, and from a good conscience, and from genuine faith.
Now the end of the command is love, which is from a pure heart, and from a good conscience, and from true faith.
But the ende of the commaundement, is loue out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, & of fayth vnfaigned.
But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
But the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
Whereas the end of the commandment is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned,
But the end sought to be secured by exhortation is the love which springs from a pure heart, a clear conscience and a sincere faith.
For the ende of comaundement is charite of clene herte, and good conscience, and of feith not feyned.
But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:
Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and [of] a good conscience, and [of] faith unfeigned:
But the aim of our instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and a sincere faith.
Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,
The purpose of my instruction is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith.
We want to see our teaching help you have a true love that comes from a pure heart. Such love comes from a heart that says we are not guilty and from a faith that does not pretend.
But the aim of such instruction is love that comes from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith.
Now, the end of the charge, is love - out of a pure heart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned, -
Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.
whereas the aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith.
for ye ende of the comaundemet is love that cometh of a pure herte and of a good conscience and of fayth vnfayned:
And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,
For ye chefe summe of the commaundement is loue of a pure hert, and of a good coscience, and of faith vnfayned.
such a charge will produce that charity, which arises from purity, from a good conscience, and a sincere belief:
The goal of the new code of Christ is to love. The only way to do this is with a pure heart, a clean conscience, and an authentic faith.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the end: Romans 10:4, Romans 13:8-10, Galatians 5:13, Galatians 5:14, Galatians 5:22, 1 John 4:7-14
charity: Mark 12:28-34, Romans 14:15, 1 Corinthians 8:1-3, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, 1 Corinthians 14:1, 1 Peter 4:8, 2 Peter 1:7
a pure: Psalms 24:4, Psalms 51:10, Jeremiah 4:14, Matthew 5:8, Matthew 12:35, Acts 15:9, 2 Timothy 2:22, James 4:8, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 John 3:3
a good: 1 Timothy 1:19, 1 Timothy 3:9, Acts 23:1, Acts 24:16, Romans 9:1, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 2 Timothy 1:3, Titus 1:15, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 10:22, Hebrews 13:18, 1 Peter 3:16, 1 Peter 3:21
faith: Galatians 5:6, 2 Timothy 1:5, Hebrews 11:5, Hebrews 11:6, 1 John 3:23
Reciprocal: Matthew 7:12 - for Matthew 22:40 - General Mark 12:29 - Hear Romans 12:9 - love 1 Corinthians 8:2 - if 1 Corinthians 13:13 - the greatest 1 Corinthians 16:14 - General Ephesians 1:15 - faith Ephesians 4:16 - edifying Colossians 3:14 - charity 1 Thessalonians 3:6 - faith 1 Timothy 2:15 - in faith Titus 2:2 - in patience Titus 3:15 - love James 1:27 - Pure James 2:14 - though James 2:17 - so James 2:18 - and I will 1 John 3:11 - message Revelation 2:19 - charity
Cross-References
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."
class="poetry"> O my soul, bless God ! God , my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed, Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent. You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind-wings. You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors. You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever. You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters; Then you roared and the water ran away— your thunder crash put it to flight. Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them. You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded. You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills. All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst. Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard. You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water. You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land, wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty. God 's trees are well-watered— the Lebanon cedars he planted. Birds build their nests in those trees; look—the stork at home in the treetop. Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks. The moon keeps track of the seasons, the sun is in charge of each day. When it's dark and night takes over, all the forest creatures come out. The young lions roar for their prey, clamoring to God for their supper. When the sun comes up, they vanish, lazily stretched out in their dens. Meanwhile, men and women go out to work, busy at their jobs until evening. What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom. The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt. Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I'm so pleased to be singing to God . But clear the ground of sinners— no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God !
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now the end of the commandment is charity,.... By the "commandment" may be meant, the order given to Timothy, or the charge committed to him; see 1 Timothy 1:18 to forbid the teaching of another doctrine, and to avoid fables and endless genealogies; the end and design of which was to cultivate peace, to maintain and secure brotherly love, which cannot long subsist, when a different doctrine is introduced and received; and to promote godly edification, which is brought about by charity or love, for charity edifies; but is greatly hindered by speculative notions, fabulous stories, and genealogical controversies and contentions: or by it may be intended the ministration of the Gospel, called the commandment, 1 Timothy 6:14, because enjoined the preachers of it by Christ; the end of which is to bring persons to the obedience of faith, or to that faith which works by love, to believe in Christ, to love the Lord, his truths, ordinances, people, and ways; or rather the moral law is designed, which is often called the commandment, Romans 7:8 since of this the apostle treats in some following verses; the end and design, sum and substance, completion and perfection of which law are love to God, and love to one another; see Matthew 22:36, which charity or love, when right,
springs out of a pure heart; which no man has naturally; every man's heart is naturally impure; nor can he make it pure; by the strength of nature, or by anything that he can do: there are some that are pure in their own eyes, and in the esteem of others, and yet are not cleansed from their filthiness, and are inwardly full of all manner of impurity; though there are some that have pure hearts, and they are such, who have clean hearts created in them by the Spirit of God; who are regenerated and sanctified by him; whose hearts are purified by faith; and who have their hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience by the blood of Christ; and who are not double minded, speak with a heart and a heart, but whose hearts are sincere and upright, and without hypocrisy; so that charity or love, from such a heart, is love without dissimulation, which is not in tongue and words only, but in deed and in truth; it is an unfeigned love, or loving with a pure heart fervently.
And of a good conscience; there is a conscience in every man, that accuses or excuses, unless it is cauterized or seared: but this conscience is naturally evil and defiled, and does not perform its office aright; either it takes no notice of, and is not concerned about sin, and has no remorse for it, or it takes notice of little things, and lets pass greater ones, or speaks peace when destruction is at hand: a good conscience is a conscience purified by the grace of God, and purged from dead works by the blood of Christ; under the influence of which a man acts uprightly in the discharge of his duty, and exercises a conscience void of offence towards God and man; and charity, proceeding from such a conscience, is of the right kind: and of faith unfeigned; with which a man really, and from the heart, believes what he professes; so did not Simon Magus, and all other temporary believers, whose faith is a feigned faith, a dead and inactive one; whereas true faith is an operative grace, it is attended with good works, and particularly it works by love: and that charity or love, which springs from faith unfeigned, is unfeigned love also, such as answers the design, and is the substance of the commandment. These words may be considered in a gradation, or as a spiritual genealogy, in opposition to the endless ones before mentioned, thus; that charity which is the end of the commandment comes out of a pure heart, out of which proceeds a good conscience, and from thence faith unfeigned. But the other way of interpreting seems best.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now the end of the commandment - see the notes on Romans 10:4. In order that Timothy might fulfil the design of his appointment, it was necessary that he should have a correct view of the design of the law. The teachers to whom he refers insisted much on its obligation and importance; and Paul designs to say that he did not intend to teach that the law was of no consequence, and was not, when properly understood, obligatory. Its nature and use, however, was not correctly understood by them, and hence it was of great importance for Timothy to inculcate correct views of the purpose for which it was given. The word “commandment” here some have understood of the gospel (Doddridge), others of the particular command which the apostle here gives to Timothy (Benson, Clarke, and Macknight); but it seems more naturally to refer to all that God had commanded - his whole law. As the error of these teachers arose from improper views of the nature and design of law, Paul says that that design should be understood. It was not to produce distinctions and angry contentions, and was not to fetter the minds of Christians with minute and burdensome observances, but it was to produce love.
Is charity - On the meaning of this word, see notes on 1 Corinthians 13:1.
Out of a pure heart - The love which is genuine must proceed from a holy heart. The commandment was not designed to secure merely the outward expressions of love, but that which had its seat in the heart.
And of a good conscience - A conscience free from guilt. Of course there can be no genuine love to God where the dictates of conscience are constantly violated, or where a man knows that he is continually doing wrong. If a man wishes to have the evidence of love to God, he must keep a good conscience. All pretended love, where a man knows that he is living in sin, is mere hypocrisy.
And of faith unfeigned - Undissembled confidence in God. This does seem to be intended specifically of faith in the Lord Jesus, but it means that all true love to God, such as this law would produce, must be based on confidence in him. How can anyone have love to him who has no confidence in him? Can we exercise love to a professed friend in whom we have no confidence? Faith, then, is as necessary under the law as it is under the gospel.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Timothy 1:5. Now the end of the commandment is charity — These genealogical questions lead to strife and debate; and the dispensation of God leads to love both to God and man, through faith in Christ. These genealogical questions leave the heart under the influence of all its vile tempers and evil propensities; FAITH in Jesus purifies the heart. No inquiry of this kind can add to any thing by which the guilt of sin can be taken away; but the Gospel proclaims pardon, through the blood of the Lamb, to every believing penitent. The end, aim, and design of God in giving this dispensation to the world is, that men may have an unfeigned faith, such as lays hold on Christ crucified, and produces a good conscience from a sense of the pardon received, and leads on to purity of heart; LOVE to God and man being the grand issue of the grace of Christ here below, and this fully preparing the soul for eternal glory. He whose soul is filled with love to God and man has a pure heart, a good conscience, and unfeigned faith. But these blessings no soul can ever acquire, but according to God's dispensation of faith.
The paraphrase and note of Dr. Macknight on this verse are very proper: "Now the scope of the charge to be given by thee to these teachers is, that, instead of inculcating fables and genealogies, they inculcate love to God and man, proceeding from a pure heart, and directed by a good conscience, and nourished by unfeigned faith in the Gospel doctrine. The word παραγγελια denotes a message or order, brought to one from another, and delivered by word of mouth. The charge here meant is that which the apostle ordered Timothy to deliver to the teachers in Ephesus; for he had said, 1 Timothy 1:3: I had besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, ινα παραγγειλνς, that thou mightest charge some: here he tells him what the scope of this charge was to be."
Of faith unfeigned — πιστεως ανυποκριτου. A faith not hypocritical. The apostle appears to allude to the Judaizing teachers, who pretended faith in the Gospel, merely that they might have the greater opportunity to bring back to the Mosaic system those who had embraced the doctrine of Christ crucified. This IS evident from the following verse.
