1 Timothy - 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.