OUTLINE OF I TIMOTHY

1. Greetings (1:1-2)
   
2. Paul and Timothy (1:3-20)
   
   1. Timothy's task at Ephesus (1:3-11)
      
   2. Paul's experience of the Gospel (1:12-17)
      
   3. Paul's charge to Timothy (1:18-20)

3. Regulations for church order (2:1-5:25)
   
   1. Instruction concerning public worship (2:1-15)
      
      1. Prayer (2:1-8)
         
      2. Conduct of women (2:9-15)
      
      
   2. Qualifications of church officials (3:1-13)
      
   3. The purpose of this letter (3:14-16)
      
   4. Instruction concerning apostasy (4:1-16)
      
   5. Discipline within the church (5:1-25)
   
   
4. Miscellaneous exhortations (6:1-9)
   
   1. Concerning slaves and masters (6:1-2)
      
   2. Concerning false teachers (6:3-5)
      
   3. Concerning the perils of wealth (6:6-10)
      
   4. Concerning the man of God (6:11-16)
      
   5. Concerning wealth men (6:17-19)
   
   
5. Concluding admonition (6:20-21)