“The Chief of Sinners” Meaning in Context (1 Timothy 1:13-16)

(See our coming study on 1 Timothy for the text)

The word translated as first in 1 Timothy 1:16 is also “protos” in the original Greek.

1 Timothy 1:16: “Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.”