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| I Timothy 4: (ASV) |
| 1) But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, |
| 2) through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; |
| 3) forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth. |
| 4) For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving: |
| 5) for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. |
| 6) If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now: |
| 7) but refuse profane and old wives' fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness: |
| 8) for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come. |
| 9) Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation. |
| 10) For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe. |
| 11) These things command and teach. |
| 12) Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. |
| 13) Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. |
| 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. |
| 15) Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all. |
| 16) Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee. |