My LORD’s Bible1 Timothy 1
The Douay-Rheims Bible in Bishop Challoner's revision (1749-52), the standard English Bible of the Catholic Church for two centuries, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with the Clementine Vulgate Latin beside each verse. The English is that of Project Gutenberg's electronic text, with Challoner's notes left out; the Latin is the Clementine Vulgate of 1598, with the medieval Glossa Ordinaria commentary of the edition left out. Book names and chapter and verse numbers follow the Vulgate, so the Psalms are numbered as in the Vulgate (Psalm 22 here is Psalm 23 in the King James Version).
4Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which furnish questions rather than the edification of God which is in faith.
neque intenderent fabulis, et genealogiis interminatis: quæ quæstiones præstant magis quam ædificationem Dei, quæ est in fide.
5Now the end of the commandment is charity from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.
Finis autem præcepti est caritas de corde puro, et conscientia bona, et fide non ficta.
6From which things some, going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling:
A quibus quidam aberrantes, conversi sunt in vaniloquium,
7Desiring to be teachers of the law: understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.
volentes esse legis doctores, non intelligentes neque quæ loquuntur, neque de quibus affirmant.
8But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
Scimus autem quia bona est lex si quis ea legitime utatur:
9Knowing this: That the law is not made for the just man but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
sciens hoc quia lex justo non est posita, sed injustis, et non subditis, impiis, et peccatoribus, sceleratis, et contaminatis, parricidis, et matricidis, homicidis,
10For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine:
fornicariis, masculorum concubitoribus, plagiariis, mendacibus, et perjuris, et si quid aliud sanæ doctrinæ adversatur,
12I give him thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry:
Gratias ago ei, qui me confortavit, Christo Jesu Domino nostro, quia fidelem me existimavit, ponens in ministerio:
13Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
qui prius blasphemus fui, et persecutor, et contumeliosus: sed misericordiam Dei consecutus sum, quia ignorans feci in incredulitate.
14Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
Superabundavit autem gratia Domini nostri cum fide, et dilectione, quæ est in Christo Jesu.
15A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.
Fidelis sermo, et omni acceptione dignus: quod Christus Jesus venit in hunc mundum peccatores salvos facere, quorum primus ego sum.
16But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.
Sed ideo misericordiam consecutus sum: ut in me primo ostenderet Christus Jesus omnem patientiam ad informationem eorum, qui credituri sunt illi, in vitam æternam.
18This precept, I commend to thee, O son Timothy: according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,
Hoc præceptum commendo tibi, fili Timothee, secundum præcedentes in te prophetias, ut milites in illis bonam militiam,
19Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.
habens fidem, et bonam conscientiam, quam quidam repellentes, circa fidem naufragaverunt: