Chapter 4

  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;  

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  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;  

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  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.  

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  For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:  

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

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  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.  

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  But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.  

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  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.  

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  This [is] a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.  

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  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.  

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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 believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.  

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  Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.  

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  Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.  

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  Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.  

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  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.  

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