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1 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons;

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 by them who believe and know the truth.

4 - For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving:

5 - For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.

6 - If thou shalt put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished by the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which thou hast attained.

7 - But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] to godliness.

8 - For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable to 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 labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men, especially 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 deportment, 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 to thyself and to thy doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou wilt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.