| 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; |
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| 2: Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared
with a hot iron; |
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| 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. |
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| 4: For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused,
if it be received with thanksgiving: |
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| 5: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 11: These things command and teach. |
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| 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. |
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| 13: Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to
doctrine. |
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| 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. |
