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| 1. | But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons |
| 2. | speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience, |
| 3. | forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth. |
| 4. | For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving; |
| 5. | for it is sanctified by God`s word and freely addressing him. |
| 6. | Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up. |
| 7. | But profane and old wives` fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety; |
| 8. | for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come. |
| 9. | The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptation; |
| 10. | for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe. |
| 11. | Enjoin and teach these things. |
| 12. | Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. |
| 13. | Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. |
| 14. | Be not negligent of the gift that is in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood. |
| 15. | Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all. |
| 16. | Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee. |