1 Timothy 4

¹And the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times certain shall depart from the faith attending to spirits of error, and doctrines of devils,

²speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their conscience seared,

³forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats which God created to receive with thanks-giving for the faithful, and them that have known the truth.

⁴For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanks-giving.

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

⁶These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.

⁷But foolish and old wives' fables avoid: and exercise thyself to piety.

⁸For corporal exercise is profitable to little: but piety is profitable to all things: having promise of the life that now is, and of that to come.

⁹A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation:

¹⁰For to this purpose we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God which is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

¹¹Command these things and teach.

¹²Let no man contemn thy youth: but be an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

¹³Till I come, attend unto reading, exhortation, doctrine.

¹⁴Neglect not the grace that is in thee: which is given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of priesthood.

¹⁵These things do thou mediate, be in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

¹⁶Attend to thyself, and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For, this doing, thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee.