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The First Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy
Chapter 4
He warns him against heretics, and exhorts him to the exercise of piety.
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Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils, |
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Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared, |
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Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth. |
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For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving: |
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For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. |
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These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto. |
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But avoid foolish and old wives fables: and exercise thyself unto godliness. |
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For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. |
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A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. |
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For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful. |
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These things command and teach: |
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Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity. |
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Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation and to doctrine. |
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Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood. |
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Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all. |
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Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee. |
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