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1 Timothy 4

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1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; ✦ 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; ✦ 3Forbidding 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. ✦ 4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: ✦ 5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. ✦ 6If 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. ✦ 7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. ✦ 8For 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. ✦ 9This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. ✦ 10For 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. ✦ 11These things command and teach. ✦ 12Let 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. ✦ 13Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. ✦ 14Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. ✦ 15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. ✦ 16Take 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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Where this chapter connects

Titus 2 ·102 Tim 2 ·91 Tim 4 ·82 Tim 3 ·8Ps 119 ·71 Tim 6 ·61 Tim 1 ·6Ps 37 ·6

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