Daily Devotional 7-17-2021
1Ti 1:5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Perhaps the most important thing to understand in this verse is that commandment does not refer to the Law of Moses or the Ten Commandments. This is brought out clearly in the NKJV: Now the purpose of the commandment is love. … Paul is saying that the goal or aim of the charge which he has just given Timothy is to produce not just orthodoxy but love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith. These things always follow when the gospel of the grace of God is preached.