but the end of the charge is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;
1:5. Unlike such aimless speculations, the intended result of Paul’s instruction to Timothy was love, and the purest kind of love at that. It is that love which pours naturally from a cleansed heart (cf. 2 Timothy 2:22), untainted conscience, and a sincere (anypokritou, “unhypocritical”; cf. 2 Timothy 1:5) faith.