[1] 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;
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[2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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[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.
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[4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
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[5] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
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[6] 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.
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[7] But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise yourself rather to godliness.
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[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.
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[9] This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
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[10] 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.
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[11] These things command and teach.
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[12] 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.
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[13] Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
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[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.
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[15] Meditate on these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may appear to all.
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[16] 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.
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