1 Timothy 4
1 Now the Spirit (pneuma) speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, (pneuma) and doctrines of devils;
But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons,
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These people’s consciences are seared,
3 Forbidding 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.
and they discourage marriage and enjoin abstinence from certain kinds of food; though God created these foods to be enjoyed thankfully by those who hold the faith and have attained a full knowledge of the truth.
4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected – provided only that it is received thankfully;
5 For it is sanctified by the word (logos) of God and prayer.
for it is consecrated by God’s blessing and by prayer.
6 If you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words (logos) of faith and of good doctrine, unto which you have attained.
Put all this before the followers, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the faith and of that good teaching by which you have guided your life.
7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.
As for profane legends and old wives’ tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;
8 For 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.
for while the training of the body is of service in some respects, religion is of service in all, carrying with it, as it does, a promise of life both here and hereafter.
9 This is a faithful saying (logos) and worthy of all acceptation.
How true that saying is and worthy of the fullest acceptance!
10 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.
With that aim we toil and struggle, for we have set our hopes on the living God, who is the Savior of all, and especially of those who hold the faith.
11 These things command and teach.
Remember these things in your teaching.
12 Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, in word, (logos) in conversation, in love, (agape) in spirit, (pneuma) in faith, in purity.
Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but, by your conversation, your conduct, your love, your faith, and your purity, be an example to those who hold the faith.
13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
Until I come, apply yourself to public reading, preaching, and teaching.
14 Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Do not neglect the divine gift within you, which was given you, amid many a prediction, when the hands of the church elders were laid on your head.
15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
Practice these things, devote yourself to them, so that your progress may be plain to everyone.
16 Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.
Look to yourself as well as to your teaching. Persevere in this, for your doing so will mean salvation for yourself as well as for your hearers.
