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1 Timothy 4

  1. 1Now the Spirit speaks 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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  2. 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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  3. 3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God has created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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  4. 4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
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  5. 5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
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  6. 6If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, unto which you have attained.
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  7. 7But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.
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  8. 8For bodily exercise profits 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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  9. 9This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
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  10. 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.
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  11. 11These things command and teach.
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  12. 12Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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  13. 13Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
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  14. 14Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
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  15. 15Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
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  16. 16Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.
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