¹ Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving care to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; ² Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 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. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: ⁵ For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. ⁶ If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which you have attained. ⁷ But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself rather to godliness. ⁸ 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 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. ¹⁰ For therefore+ we both labour and suffer rebuke, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. ¹¹ These things command and teach. ¹² Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 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. ¹⁵ Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all. ¹⁶ Take care to yourself, and to the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you will both save yourself, and them that hear you.