5 The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
5 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
5 The whole point of what we're urging is simply love - love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God.
5 Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith,
5 The purpose of my instruction is that all believers would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and genuine faith.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on 1 Timothy 1:5
Commentary on 1 Timothy 1:5-11
(Read 1 Timothy 1:5-11)
Whatever tends to weaken love to God, or love to the brethren, tends to defeat the end of the commandment. The design of the gospel is answered, when sinners, through repentance towards God and faith in Jesus Christ, are brought to exercise Christian love. And as believers were righteous persons in God's appointed way, the law was not against them. But unless we are made righteous by faith in Christ, really repenting and forsaking sin, we are yet under the curse of the law, even according to the gospel of the blessed God, and are unfit to share the holy happiness of heaven.