1 Timothy 1:3

Paul reminds Timothy why he left him in Ephesus: to stop certain men from teaching false doctrine. It shows that guarding sound teaching is a central pastoral duty.

Cross-references · 19

• 1 Tim 6:3If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
• Gal 1:6–7I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;
• 2 Jn 1:9–10Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.
• 2 Jn 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
• Titus 1:9–11holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
• 1 Tim 4:11Command and teach these things.
• 1 Tim 4:6If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
• Acts 20:1–3After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
• Col 2:6–11As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• 1 Tim 5:7Also command these things, that they may be without reproach.
• 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
• Phil 2:24But I trust in the Lord that I myself also will come shortly.
• Acts 18:19He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
• Rev 2:1–2“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:
• Eph 4:14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
• Rev 2:20But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
• 1 Tim 6:10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Acts 19:1–10While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.
• Rev 2:14But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

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