| 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. |
| 7 | But refuse profane and old
wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. |
| 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. |
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9 | This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. |
| 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. |
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15 | Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that
thy profiting may appear to all. |
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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. |
