1 Timothy 2:7
“Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an Apostle (I speake the trueth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and veritie.”
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1 Timothy 2:7 Context
5For there is one God, and one Mediatour betweene God and men, the man Christ Iesus, 6Who gaue himselfe a ransome for all, to be testified in due time. 7Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an Apostle (I speake the trueth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and veritie. 8I will therefore that men pray euery where, lifting vp holy handes without wrath, and doubting. 9In like maner also, that women adorne themselues in modest apparell, with shamefastnesse and sobrietie, not with broided haire, or gold, or pearles, or costly aray,
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Other Translations for 1 Timothy 2:7
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, [and] lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
- King James Version
For this I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying) as a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
whereunto I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I speak the truth, I lie not), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.
- Basic English Bible
to which *I* have been appointed a herald and apostle, (I speak [the] truth, I do not lie,) a teacher of [the] nations in faith and truth.
- Darby Bible
For which I am ordained a preacher and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
- Webster's Bible
and of which I have been appointed a herald and an Apostle (I am speaking the truth: it is not a fiction), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
- Weymouth Bible
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
- World English Bible
in which Y am set a prechour and an apostle. For Y seye treuthe, and Y lie not, that am a techere of hethene men in feith and in treuthe.
- Wycliffe Bible
in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle -- truth I say in Christ, I do not lie -- a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for 1 Timothy 2:7
1Ti 2:7 Whereunto. To testify of this ransom. I am ordained a preacher. Appointed "a herald" (Revised Version, margin). And an apostle. An apostle also, with the authority of an apostle. I speak the truth in Christ, [and] lie not. The Judaizers denied his apostleship. Hence this special affirmation.