The "Saying" of 1 Timothy 1

 1 Timothy 1 

¹⁵ This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

"THIS was at that time “a saying.” What is a “saying”?—Here is the definition of the word:

“A saying is impersonal, current among the common people, deriving its authority from its manifest truth or good sense.”

Perhaps you have not yet found out that you are the chief of sinners.

If so, you are missing a most blessed part of Christian experience.

And so once more this will be a saying. It will be once more, as at the first, the faithful saying that God appointed it to be. For it is as true today as ever it was in the world that:

1 Timothy 1
¹⁵ This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief." A.T. Jones