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| 4:1 |
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons;
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| 4:2 |
Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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| 4:3 |
Forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by them who believe and know the truth.
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| 4:4 |
For every creature of God [is] good, and nothing to be refused, if received with thanksgiving:
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| 4:5 |
For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.
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| 4:6 |
If thou shalt put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished by the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which thou hast attained.
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| 4:7 |
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] to godliness.
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| 4:8 |
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
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| 4:9 |
This [is] a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation.
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| 4:10 |
For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
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| 4:11 |
These things command and teach.
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| 4:12 |
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in deportment, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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| 4:13 |
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
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| 4:14 |
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
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| 4:15 |
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
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| 4:16 |
Take heed to thyself and to thy doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou wilt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
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