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1 | Now the Spirit speaketh 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 hath 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 thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou
shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the
words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast
attained. |
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7 | But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself
rather unto godliness. |
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8 | For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is
profitable unto 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 labour and suffer reproach, because we
trust in the living God, who is the Saviour 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 thy youth; but be thou 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 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 unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in
them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them
that hear thee. |
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