The First Letter To Timótheos

טִימֹתֶאוֹס[E1]  א

 

Chapter 1

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  1. ¶ Páulus, a delegate of Yâhuwshúa` the Anointed, according to Yâ-hwéh our Deliverer’s command, even of the Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` the Anointed, our Hope;
  2. To Timótheos, a legitimate son by the persuasion, be favor, mercy, and peace from the Mighty One, Father of us and of the Anointed Yâhuwshúa` our Sovereign.

 

Do not heed “Yehuwthím” myths (incl. name substitutions)

  1. Just as I urged you to remain within ’Éphesos, en route into Makedonía, in order that you might order some to not teach different doctrines,
  2. And that you not pay attention to the innumerable myths and genealogies, which bring out questionings rather than the edification of Yâ-hwéh’s house, which is done by persuasion,
  3. So the goal of the order is affectionate love from a cleansed heart and from a good conscience and from unfaked persuasion,
  4. From which some, having missed the mark, are turned away to an empty profitless word[E2] , [see also 6: 20-21]
  5. Wishing to be instructors of the Law; not understanding neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm!*[E3] 

 

The future virtuous use of the Law is part of the Glad Tidings

  1. Yet we do acknowledge that the Law is virtuous, when One might use it according to the Towrâ´h (Law);
  2. Discerning this: that the Law shall not be applied against a righteous one, but rather against those lawless and insubordinate, irreverent and sinful, against those impure and heathenish[E4]  ones, against father-murderers and mother-murderers, against murderers of man,
  3. Male whores, men who lie with men as if with women, enslavers of sons of freedom, liars, perjurers, and if any other thing is opposed to sound instruction,
  4. According to the glad tidings[E5]  of the honor of the supremely blessed Mighty Ones, with which I was entrusted.

 

Páulus the prime example of the mercy of the Word

  1. Yet I thank Him Who gave me Force, the Anointed Yâhuwshúa`, our Sovereign, because He deemed me trustworthy, appointing me for the service of attending Him,
  2. When I previously had been a scorner and persecutor and insolent; nevertheless I was shown mercy, because when I did not acknowledge Him, I acted because of unbelief.
  3. Yet the favor of our Sovereign overwhelmed my persuasion, even the affectionate love which is within the Anointed Yâhuwshúa`!
  4. The Word is reliable, and worthy of the acceptance of all: that the Anointed Yâhuwshúa` came into the world to deliver sinners, of whom I am the foremost!  [Meaning of Yâhuwshúa`: “Yâ-hwéh is deliverance/wealth”]
  5. Nevertheless, due to this Word I was shown mercy in order that within me, the foremost sinner, all the longsuffering of the Anointed Yâhuwshúa` might be demonstrated as an example for the ones being about to believe on Him for endless life!
  6. So for the King of the ages, for He Who is incorruptible and unseen, yet Who is One ’Elohíym (Mighty Ones), might be the esteem and honor for the ages of the ages, ’Âmë´n (Certainly)!

 

The Charge:

Announce the true Word and persuasion; Avoid false names and doubt-provoking myths

  1. ¶ This is the charge I commit to you, my son Timótheos, according to the preceding predictions about you: that you might go to war the warfare of virtue by them,
  2. By maintaining the persuasion and a good conscience, which some having shoved it away from them, have become empty[E6]  from the persuasion.
  3. Of whom are Humenáios and ’Aléxandros, whom I gave over to the Adversary in order that they may be disciplined not to scorn [see also 1 Qorinthíym 5: 5].

 

Chapter 2

Prayer request for mankind

  1. ¶ Therefore I implore, foremost of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings to be made for all sons of ’Âthâ´m:
  2. For kings, and all that are in prominence in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all reverence of Yâ-hwéh and venerableness,
  3. For this is a virtue, and acceptable in the sight of our Deliverer, Yâ-hwéh,
  4. Who wishes all sons of ’Âthâ´m to be delivered and to come to the acknowledgement of the Truth.
  5. For Yâ-hwéh is One, and One is a Mediator[E7]  of the Mighty One and the sons of ’Âthâ´m: the Anointed Son of ’Âthâ´m, Yâhuwshúa`,
  6. Who gave His Self a ransom for all: the testimony for His own times to come,
  7. Unto which I was appointed a herald and delegate — I speak the Truth; I do not lie — to be an instructor of the heathen masses in the persuasion of the[E8]  Truth.
  8. Therefore, I wish the men in every place to pray, raising up hands purely, without wrath or debating.

 

The reverent wife’s behavior*[E9] 

  1. In the same way also, [I ask they pray for] the wives, [to be] in orderly long vestment, to adorn themselves with modesty and soundness of mind — not with fancy braids, or gold, or pearls, or extremely expensive clothing —
  2. Instead, with that which is appropriate to wives professing fear of Yâ-hwéh: through good works!
  3. Let a wife learn in quietness in all subordination.
  4. But I do not allow a wife to instruct, nor to assume authority over the husband, rather to be in peace,
  5. For ’Âthâ´m was formed first, then Chauwâ´h;
  6. And ’Âthâ´m was not deceived, but the wife, having been deceived, has come to be in transgression.  [Genesis 3: 13[E10] ]
  7. But she shall be delivered by the hand of the Seed she bore, [Genesis 3: 15[E11] , To the Galátas 4: 4] if they stay in persuasion and affectionate love, and purification, along with being of sound mind —

 

Chapter 3

 

  1. the Word [Yâhuwshúa`] is reliable.

 

Screening guidelines for prospective Elders

¶ If anyone reaches for an office of an Elder[E12] , he is desirous of a work of virtue.

  1. Therefore it is necessary for the Elder to be irreproachable, a husband of one woman, sober, well-tempered, orderly, hospitable to strangers, apt to teach,
  2. Not given to wine, not violent, instead appropriate, peaceable, not loving silver,
  3. Virtuously presiding before his own house, holding his children in subordination with all honorableness,
  4. Now if one does not understand how to preside before the house of his self, how shall he take care of the convocation of Yâ-hwéh?
  5. Not a newly planted pupil, lest becoming swollen with pride, he might fall into the crime of the Accuser (pride and rebellion).
  6. And it is necessary for him to also have a testimony of virtue from the ones outside, lest he may fall into ridicule, and the trap of the Accuser.

 

Screening guidelines for prospective Attendants

  1. Attendants, in the same way, necessarily should be venerable, not saying different words to different people, not given over to excessive wine, not greedy of dishonest gain,
  2. Maintaining the secret of the persuasion in a cleansed conscience.
  3. And these also, let them first be proved, and then let them attend, being unaccused.
  4. Their wives, in the same way, necessarily should be venerable, not accusers, sober, trustworthy in all things.
  5. Let the attendants be husbands of one wife, ruling his children, and his own house virtuously.
  6. For those who have attended virtuously acquire for themselves a grade of dignity (degree), and much confidence in the persuasion which is in the Anointed Yâhuwshúa`!

 

Reason Páulus wrote these criteria and charges

  1. ¶ As I hope to come before you more quickly, I write these things to you…
  2. …in order that, even if I should delay, you might discern how it is necessary for one to behave in the house of Yâ-hwéh, which is the convocation of ’Ël-Châ´y (the living Mighty One), to be a pillar and support of the Truth.
  3. And admittedly great is the secret of the reverence of Yâ-hwéh, Who was manifested in the flesh, yet was declared righteous by the Spirit, and Who was gazed at by envoys yet He was proclaimed among the heathen masses, and Who was trusted within the world though He was ascended in honor.

 

Chapter 4

Prediction of today’s apostasy

  1. ¶ But the Spirit speaks outspokenly that in latter seasons, some shall instigate to revolt from the persuasion, giving heed to misleading spirits and instructions of gods
  2. Deceiving by the fakery, speaking the Lie, their own conscience being cauterized:
  3. Hindering to marry, instructing to abstain from meats[E13] , which Yâ-hwéh created for partaking with thanksgiving for the persuaded, and who acknowledge the Truth.
  4. Because every creature of Yâ-hwéh is virtuous, and not even one is to be rejected[E14] , if it is being received with thanksgiving,
  5. For it is purified through Yâ-hwéh’s Word with supplication.  [Deuteronomy 12: 15-16[E15] ]

 

Advice for Timótheos, the attendant,

How to run a convocation:

Which Way to go

  1. ¶ Laying these things out before the brothers, you will be a virtuous attendant of Yâhuwshúa` the Anointed, being grown firm for the Words of the persuasion, and of the virtuous teaching which you have closely followed.
  2. Yet reject the heathenish myths of old wives, and exercise your self towards the reverence of Yâ-hwéh,
  3. For bodily exercise is profitable for a little benefit, but reverence is profitable for everything, possessing a promise of life, of the present and of the coming life!
  4. The Word [Yâhuwshúa`: “Yâ-hwéh is deliverance/wealth”] is reliable and worthy of the acceptance of all;
  5. Which is why for this Word, we both labor and are reproached, because we have confidence on the living Mighty Ones, Who is the Deliverer of all[E16]  sons of ’Âthâ´m, particularly of believers.
  6. Charge these things and instruct them!

 

Instructions on leadership

  1. Let no one look down on your youthfulness; rather be a pattern for the believers in expression, in conduct, in affectionate love, in persuasion, in cleanliness.
  2. Until I come, apply yourself to reading, to encouraging, and to instructing.
  3. Do not be careless of the gift within you, that which was given to you through predicating and amid the laying on of the hand of the eldership.
  4. Ponder about these things; be within them, in order that your progress may be apparent among all.
  5. Pay attention to your self and to the instruction, continue on in them, for performing this, you shall save both your self and those who heed you.

 

Chapter 5

  1. Do not scold an elder, instead implore them as a father, younger men as brothers,
  2. Elder women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, within all cleanliness.

 

Instructions on benevolence criteria

  1. Esteem widows that are really desolate:
  2. But if any widow has sons or grandsons, let them first learn to show respect to their own house and to render recompense to those parents[E17] , for this is a virtue also acceptable in the sight of Yâ-hwéh.
  3. Now she, who really is a widow and left alone, has her hope on Yâ-hwéh and perseveres in supplications and prayers night and day.  [e.g. Luwqá’ 2: 36-38]
  4. But she who lives for pleasing herself, is dead while living.
  5. So charge these things in order that they may be irreproachable.
  6. And if anyone does not provide for his own and his particular household, he has denied the persuasion and is worse than an unbeliever.
  7. Enroll a widow not less than sixty years old, having been a wife of one man,
  8. Being testified to in works of virtue: whether she raised children, whether she was hospitable to strangers[E18] , whether she washed the feet of the pure ones [Yâhuwchânâ´n 13: 14], whether she helped the oppressed, or whether she followed His example in every good work.
  9. But decline younger divorcees[E19] , for when they may have become unrestrained against the Anointed, they wish to marry,
  10. Having a crime that they have rejected their first reliance [Law of the husband: 1 Qorinthíym 7: 11, To the Romans 7: 2-3].
  11. And at the same time also they learn to be idle, going around the houses, and not only idle, rather also to be gushingly excessive talkers and busybodies, speaking things they shouldn’t.
  12. Therefore I will for younger widows to marry, to bear children, to own their house, to give not even one opportunity to the adversary, on account of slander.
  13. For already some[E20]  are turned away backwards by the Adversary.
  14. If any believing man or believing wife has desolate ones, let him/her help them and let the convocation not be burdened, in order that it may help those who are really widows.

 

Instructions on elders

  1. Let those elders, who preside virtuously, be deemed entitled of double payment, especially those laboring within the Word and instructing,
  2. For the scripture says:

“You shall not muzzle an ox while he threshes the grain.”  [Deuteronomy 25: 4]

and:

“…for the workman is deserving of his food” [Luwqá’ 10: 7]

  1. Do not admit a complaint against an elder, aside from unless it was on the word of two or three witnesses.  [Deuteronomy 17: 6]
  2. But those elders who do sin, convict in the sight of all, in order that the rest also may have fear!
  3. I earnestly testify, in the sight of the Mighty One and of the Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` the Anointed and His chosen envoys, that you should keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing according to favoritism.
  4. Do not impose authority quickly over any one elder, nor share in the sins with other elders; keep your self clean!

 

How to avoid traveler’s diarrhea

  1. ¶ Due to your stomach and your frequent infirmities, do not drink water any longer; instead, use a little wine[E21] .

 

More on screening prospective elders

  1. ¶ The sins of some sons of ’Âthâ´m are obvious, leading to a decision beforehand, yet some also will follow the Way afterwards.
  2. In the same way also, the good works of some men are obvious, but the ones who are otherwise cannot be hidden.

 

Chapter 6

Instructions for slaves

  1. ¶ As many as are under a yoke of bondage, let them esteem their own masters [sovereigns[E22] ] entitled of all esteem, in order that the name of Yâ-hwéh and His instruction not be scorned.
  2. Even those who have believing masters, let them not look down on them, because they are brothers; instead rather let them bondserve them because they are believers and beloved ones who are being helped by the good work.  Instruct ye these things and encourage them.

 

Instructions regarding false teachers and materialism

  1. If anyone instructs differently, and does not pay attention to those sound words of our Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` the Anointed, and to His instruction about the reverence of Yâ-hwéh,
  2. Then he is swollen with pride, taking note of nothing; instead, he has a sick craving about disputes and word wars, from which are generated envy, strife, scorning, harmful suspicions —
  3. The meddlesomeness of the sons of ’Âthâ´m, thoroughly rotted in mind and destituted of the Truth, accustomed to deeming gain to be evidence of proper reverence.  Withdraw from the ones of this sort.
  4. Yet, our own gain is great, which is proper reverence with contentedness!
  5. For we brought nothing into the world; it is obvious that we are neither able to carry anything out,
  6. So having nourishment and clothing, we shall be satisfied with these.
  7. But those wanting to be rich fall into testing and a trap, and many unwise and injurious desires, which sink those sons of ’Âthâ´m into ruin and destruction.
  8. For a root of all of these evils is the love of silver, which some, reaching out to grasp it were led astray from the persuasion, and brought on themselves many sorrows.
  9. But you, O son of ’Âthâ´m of ’Elohíym (the Mighty Ones), flee these things and pursue rectification, proper reverence, persuasion, affectionate love, perseverance, and humble mildness[E23] .
  10. And wrestle the virtuous combat of the persuasion.  Lay hold on endless life, for which you also were called and did profess the virtuous profession in the sight of many witnesses.

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Charge: profess Yâhuwshúa` is Yâ-hwéh until His epiphany[E24]  at His coming.

  1. I charge you in the sight of Yâ-hwéh Who makes all alive, even the Anointed Yâhuwshúa`, Who testified the virtuous profession onto Póntius Pilátus:
  2. Guard ye that commandment [to profess the virtuous profession[E25] ] spotlessly, irreproachably, until the sign above of our Sovereign Yâhuwshúa` the Deliverer [MattithYâ´huw 24: 30, Disclosure 7: 2],
  3. Which, in His own feast seasons, shall show He is the supremely Blessed One and the only Power, the King of the kings and the Sovereign of the sovereigns!
  4. He Who alone possesses immortality, dwelling in unapproachable Light, Whom not one man from the sons of ’Âthâ´m did see nor that man is capable to look at; for Whom is esteem, and endless strength, ’Âmë´n (certainly).

 

Instructions for the rich

  1. ¶ Charge to those ones rich within the present age to not be high-minded, nor to have confidence on the uncertainty of riches, instead to trust on the living Mighty Ones, Who richly gives over to us all things for our full enjoyment;
  2. To do good works, to be rich in works of virtue, to be liberal in distributing, and to fellowship,
  3. Treasuring up for themselves a virtuous foundation for the future, in order that they may lay hold on endless life.

 

Avoid these Protestant Christian doctrines:

  1. ¶ O Timótheos, preserve the deposit [To the Romans 3: 1-2], avoiding the heathenish meaningless words, and opposing theories of acknowledging a false name,
  2. For those who are proclaiming them have missed the mark about the persuasion.  Favor is with you, ’âmë´n (certainly).

 

First to Timótheos written from Laodíkeia, which is the chief city of Phrugías of the Pakatiané

 [E1]Timótheos (Τιμόθεος) is a Greek name, yet Páulus wrote his letters in `Ivríyth (Hebrew), so this name is transliterated into Aramaic square script retaining its original pronunciation.

 [E2]A false invalid name for the Anointed, e.g. “Yehowshu`a”, “Yeshu`a”, “Iesous”, and later “Iesvs”, “Jesus”, and “Yahshua”.  None of these empty profitless names are substitutable for Yâhuwshúa` for receiving the promises connected to it, such as eternal life, purification of spirit, receiving His Spirit, release of sins, affectionate love, or treasures of knowledge and wisdom.

 [E3]Since reverence of His name is the key to knowledge and wisdom, and how we have access to the Spirit of Truth, how can anyone having erred in His name understand Torah let alone teach it?

 [E4]Literally “accessible”, to demons and their religious doctrines and religions.  Commonly translated as “profane”, from the same idea, so here we summarize this as heathenish, also found in the Strong’s explanation of #952.

 [E5]The glad tidings includes that the sons of Yisrâ’Ë´l (Christians), who are under the Law, will be judged by the Law at His coming here to reign.

 [E6]Per the Aramaic translation, which uses the same word here as in Romans 1: 21.

 [E7]A Go-between Intercessor, intervening between two to make and restore peace, and Arbitrator.

 [E8]Per the Aramaic translation.  The Greek translations have here “and”.

 [E9]This passage, besides being about our women, is a prayer for the Convocation of the Anointed, and uses spiritual symbolism to say how it should behave towards her Husband, the Anointed.  It is interesting to note how today’s apostate convocation has gone against every one of these precepts, and is described spiritually as the Great Confusion (Bâvél ha-Gâthówl) in Disclosure 17.

 [E10]“And Yâ-hwéh the Mighty Ones said to the woman: “What is this you have done?”  And the woman said: “The serpent, he deceived me, so I ate!”:”

 [E11]“…And I shall put enmity between you and between the woman, and between your seed and between her Seed; He, He shall crush your head, but you, you shall strike His heel”

 [E12]Per the Aramaic.  The Greek has here “overseership” a supervisory position, belonging to Yâhuwshúa` (1 Këph 2:25), which does not appear to be given to man.

 [E13]This is done by the Catholics as “Fish on Friday” and now more so, by groups professing “Yahshua” which cling to Leviticus 11 food laws against all other scripture saying what Yâhuwshúa` has done about this.  The omni-carnivorous blessing of Nóach (Genesis 9: 3-4) wouldn’t be nullified by Leviticus 11, just as ’Avrâhâ´m’s promise isn’t undone by the Law.  These blessings are qualified by persuasion, Nóach’s by making offering thanks by His name, and ’Avrâhâ´m’s by believing Him by His name.

 [E14]Note that this proper translation allows for the continued prohibition against eating blood (Genesis 9: 4, Deeds of the Delegates 21: 25).

 [E15]"However, according to all the longings of your self you may slaughter and you may eat meat, according to the blessing of Yâ-hwéh your Mighty Ones that He gave to you.  Within all of your gates:  the unclean and the clean [meat], one may eat it like the gazelle or like the deer; however the blood you must not eat - on the ground you shall pour it like the waters..."

...then giving thanks with offerings:

(Then they were to eat the tithe for Yâ-hwéh before Yâ-hwéh at the place He chose (verse 17-18), or do the burnt offerings if they were too far away (verse 26-27)

 [E16]All men, not just those currently believers.  Each in their rank (1 Qorinthíym 15) and not all at once.  Not just the 144,000 sealed survivors of Yisrâ’Ë´l after the 6th Seal, then also the living heathen masses, and then after 3 ½ years the resurrected “Christians”, then after 1000 years the rest of the dead live, some rebel, and He shakes the heavens and the earth, and then every knee shall bow and every tongue shall profess Him.  This is not to say none go the Lake of fire, those are the son of extermination, the preacher of the Lie, Sâţâ´n and his envoys, and his sons, those who will receive the mark of the Beast, who are not written in the Lamb’s book of life.

 [E17]Recompense in this context clarifies the meaning of the commandment to “Honor your father and your mother”, meaning to also provide care and sustenance for them in their old age, something American families do very little of.

 [E18]Scripture is against xenophobia and bigotry.

 [E19]The `Ivríyth (Hebrew) word ’Almânâ´h means desolated wife, whether widowed or divorced by her husband.  The context makes it clear this one has a living husband, because remarriage is no crime for a widow.  (1 Qorinthíym 7: 39-40)

 [E20]The Aramaic says “some men” here, which is a pronoun referring to both men and women, therefore to not seem to say only men are deviated by “merry widows”, and not the widow herself, we write “some”.

 [E21]Alcoholic wine.  Not a sin.  Yâhuwshúa` drank non-intoxicating quantities of wine regularly (MattithYâ´huw 11: 19).

 [E22]Per the Aramaic.  The Greek has here “despots” which would translate to “lords”.  In this translation we do not apply the Baal-like term “master” to our Sovereign.

 [E23]Establishment translations’ “meekness” implies cowardice nowadays, and is not part of the meaning of the scripture, but is what the establishment wants us to be.

 [E24]Epiphany means overhead showing, or sign, referring to the star of Bë´yth-Léchem or to the Sign of the Son of ’Âthâ´m at His coming at the Sixth Seal in MattithYâ´huw 24 and it is the envoy rising in the east in Disclosure 7 (see hyperlinks).

 [E25]“Yâhuwshúa` is Yâ-hwéh”