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Chapter 4
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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; |
3
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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. |
4
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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. |
6
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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. |
10
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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. |
12
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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. |
15
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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. |
