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+# Introduction to 1 Timothy
+## Overview
+
+Paul wrote Timothy to help him correct the church at Ephesus. Many false teachers were
+in this church. They caused a lot of problems. Paul knew this would happen. He also told
+others it would happen when he met with the leaders in the Ephesian church. Paul wrote
+to Timothy to encourage him to correct the false teachers. He also wrote him to give
+Timothy an example of how to do the things that honor God. The main purpose of 1
+Timothy was to help Timothy to teach and care for the churches.
+
+See Map: Ephesus
+
+### Who wrote 1 Timothy?
+
+Paul wrote that he was the author of 1 Timothy. He wrote about how he used to
+persecute the church. Also, he wrote about how the story of how he started to believe in
+Jesus was an example of God’s grace toward people (1:12-16). He called himself an
+“apostle” (see: 1:1, 2:7), a “herald,” and a teacher of the gentiles (see: 2:7).
+
+See: Persecute (Persecution); Grace; Apostle; Gentile; Herald
+
+### When did Paul write 1 Timothy?
+1. Some scholars think Paul wrote First Timothy during his third missionary journey. He left Ephesus and went to Macedonia (see: Acts 20:1). Timothy joined him later (see: 20:4).
+1. Some scholars think that Paul was released from his Roman imprisonment (see: Acts 28:30-31) and then wrote this letter before a second imprisonment in Rome.
+
+
+See: Paul’s missionary journeys
+
+See Map: Macedonia; Rome
+
+### To whom did Paul write First Timothy?
+Paul mainly wrote this letter to  Timothy. However, he also wrote this letter to the church
+of which Timothy lead. He did this so they would know that Paul wanted Timothy to lead
+this church. Paul had Timothy join him while on Paul’s second missionary journey (see:
+Acts 16:1-3). Later, when Paul going into Macedonia, he asked Timothy to stay in
+Ephesus to help the church there with problems it was having (see: 1:3).
+
+See: Church; Paul’s missionary journeys
+
+See Map: Macedonia
+
+### Why did Paul write First Timothy?
+
+Paul wrote the letter to give Timothy instructions about helping the church at Ephesus.
+They needed this help because false teachers had taught the wrong things and caused
+many Christians to sin. People thought the church in Ephesus did evil things. Paul
+wanted Timothy to make people to think good things about this church because it did
+good things. He wanted Timothy to do this by teaching Christians the right things about
+God. In particular, he wanted families to live in an orderly and godly way (see: 3:4-5,
+3:12, 5:4-8, 13-14; 6:1-2).
+
+See: Church; Sin
+
+### What did the false teachers teach other people?
+The false teachers taught a different type of Judaism. Teachers in that day used much
+time arguing about tiny details of the Old Testament (see: 1:3-8; 6:4-5; 6:20). Some of
+the teachers believed that Gentiles could not be saved (see: 2:4-7). They thought that
+some things in the world were unclean, such as certain foods and marriage (4:3-5).
+Some teachers taught that there would not be a future resurrection of Christians (see: 2
+Timothy 2:18). They also did sinful things and love to have a lot of money (see: 4:2; 6:5-
+9). Paul taught that Satan tries to get people to believe the wrong thing and to do things
+that do not honor God (see: 4:1; 5:15).
+
+See: Satan (The Devil); Gentile; Save (Salvation; Saved from Sin); Clean and Unclean;
+Marriage; Resurrect (Resurrection)
+
+## Outline
+1.     Paul greeted Timothy (1:1-2)
+2.     Timothy needed to stop false teaching in Ephesus (1:3-20)
+3.     The Christians in Ephesus must all do the things that Christians should do (2:1-15)
+4.     Timothy must appoint good leaders for the church (3:1-13)
+5.     Timothy must be a good leader (3:14-4:16)
+6.     The Christians in Ephesus must all do the things that Christians should do,
+continued (5:1-6:2)
+7.     Timothy must warn against false teaching and against greed (6:3-19)
+8.     Conclusion (6:20-21)