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| [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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| [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 hath created to be received with thanksgiving by them who believe and know the truth. |
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| [4]For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if 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 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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| [7]But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather to godliness. |
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| [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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| [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, especially of those that believe. |
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| [11]These things command and teach. |
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| [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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| [13]Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. |
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| [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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| [15]Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. |
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| [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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