1 Timothy 4
1 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,
Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These men’s consciences are seared,
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 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.
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.
4 Everything created by God is good, and there in nothing that need be rejected — provided only that it is received thankfully;
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
5 for it is consecrated by God’s blessing and by prayer.
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
6 Put all this before the Brethren, 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.
If you put the brothers 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, to which you have attained.
7 As for profane legends and old wives’ tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself rather to godliness.
8 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.
For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
9 How true that saying is and worthy of the fullest acceptance!
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10 With that aim we toil and struggle, for we have set our hopes on the Living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and especially of those who hold the Faith.
For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, specially of those that believe.
11 Dwell upon these things in your teaching.
These things command and teach.
12 Do not let any one 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.
Let no man despise your youth; but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
13 Till I come, apply yourself to public reading, preaching, and teaching.
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
14 Do not neglect the divine gift within you, which was given you, amid many a prediction, when the hands of the Officers of the Church were laid on your head.
Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
15 Practice these things, devote yourself to them, so that your progress may be plain to every one.
Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
16 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.
Take heed to yourself, and to the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.
