1 Timothy 1:19

1 Tim. 1:19. "Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away, concerning faith have made shipwreck." It seems that it should rather have been rendered the Faith - that is, concerning the doctrine of the Gospel; for in the original it is and this last agrees with the metaphor of making shipwreck. For herein the gospel, or doctrine of faith, is represented as a treasure committed to their care as a treasure is committed into a ship, and so to the care of the master, to be carried safe to such a port. But they, through their unskilfulness and carelessness, have made shipwreck of it and lost it: or if by faith is meant an inward qualification, doubtless they made shipwreck of it, as Simon Magus did, of whom we are told that he believed when others believed, but never had a true faith; for it is plain by what the Apostle Peter says, he then remained in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity; and it must be such a faith as the stony-ground hearers had, who, at the same time that they believed, had no root in themselves, and so were not true saints; and such a faith as those had of whom we are told that they believed on Christ, but Christ did not commit Himself to them, for He knew what was in man; He knew that what was in them was not true, was not to be depended upon.

1 Tim. 5:11