Holy Bible
(King James Version)
First Timothy: 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.
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.
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.
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