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Chapter 4 |
| 1 | Now the Spirit
speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; |
| 2 | Speaking
lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; |
| 3 |
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath
created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the
truth. |
| 4 |
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused,
if it be received with thanksgiving: |
| 5 | For it is sanctified by the
word of God and prayer. |
| 6 | If thou put the brethren in remembrance of
these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in
the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
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| 7 | But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather
unto godliness. |
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8 | For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness
is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of
that which is to come. |
| 9 | This is a faithful saying and worthy of all
acceptation. |
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10 | For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach,
because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of
those that believe. |
| 11 | These things command and teach. |
| 12 |
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word,
in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. |
| 13 | Till
I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. |
| 14 |
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with
the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. |
| 15 | Meditate
upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear
to all. |
| 16
| Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue
in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear
thee. |
