1 Timothy 4 King James Version 1611

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• 1 Now the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giuing heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of deuils:
• 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisie, hauing their conscience seared with a hote iron,
• 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to absteine from meates, which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue, and know the trueth.
• 4 For euery creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing:
• 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 Iesus Christ, nourished vp in the wordes of faith, and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
• 7 But refuse prophane and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe rather vnto godlinesse.
• 8 For bodily exercise profiteth litle, but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, hauing 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 therfore we both labour, and suffer reproch, because we trust in the liuing God, who is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue.
• 11 These things command & teach.
• 12 Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the beleeuers, in word, in conuersation, in charitie, in spirit, in faith, in puritie.
• 13 Till I come, giue attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
• 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophesie, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie.
• 15 Meditate vpon these things, giue thy selfe wholly to them, that thy profiting may appeare to all.
• 16 Take heed vnto thy selfe, and vnto the doctrine: continue in them: for in doing this, thou shalt both saue thy selfe, and them that heare thee.