“I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Timothy 1 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.