Paul's letters
1 Timothy
Paul’s instructions to Timothy, his young coworker, on caring for the church in Ephesus.
Paul left Timothy at Ephesus to correct false teaching (1 Timothy 1:3) and wrote to guide him about church leaders, worship, and false teachers.
Kinds of writing
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Key verses
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
1 Timothy 1:15 (World English Bible)
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On the timeline
Paul writes 1 Timothy and Titus
1 Timothy quotes or alludes to the Old Testament 2 times (counted in the site’s Old in the New).
Dating notes
This timeline plots AD 63 (with Titus), after Paul’s release from his first Roman imprisonment. Many scholars deny Paul wrote the Pastoral Letters, on grounds of vocabulary and style; the traditional view is that he did. The span is an estimate; Scripture doesn’t say when the book was written.