1st Timothy 4

CHAPTER 4

¹But the Spirit saith openly, that in the last times some men shall depart from the faith, giving attention to spirits of error, and to teachings of devils;

²that speak leasing in hypocrisy, and have their conscience corrupted,

³forbidding to be wedded, and to abstain from meats, which God made to take with doing of thankings, to faithful men, and them that have known the truth.

⁴For each creature of God is good, and nothing is to be cast away, which is taken with doing of thankings;

⁵for it is hallowed by the word of God, and by prayer.

⁶Thou putting forth these things to brethren, shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus; nourished with words of faith and of good doctrine, which thou hast gotten.

⁷But eschew [or shun] thou uncovenable fables, and old women’s fables ; haunt thyself to piety.

⁸For bodily exercitation is profitable to little thing; but piety is profitable to all things, that hath a promise of life that now is, and that is to come.

⁹A true word, and worthy all acceptation or acception.

¹⁰And in this thing we travail, and be cursed, for we hope in living God, that is Saviour of all men, most of faithful men.

¹¹Command thou this thing, and teach.

¹²No man despise thy youth, but be thou ensample of faithful men, in word, in living, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

¹³Till I come, take attention to reading, to exhortation and teaching.

¹⁴Do not thou little care, the grace which is in thee, that is given to thee by prophecy, with putting on of the hands of [the] priesthood.

¹⁵Think thou these things, in these be thou, that thy profiting be showed to all men.

¹⁶Take attention to thyself and to doctrine; be busy in them. For thou doing these things, shalt make both thyself safe, and them that hear thee.