1 Timothy 4

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        1 Timothy 4
      
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        <b>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;</b>
      
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         2.  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
      
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        <b>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.</b>
      
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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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        <b>5.  For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.  </b>
      
      
        [This may tie in with Paul's statement on women & childbearing]
      
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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 
      
      
        <b>refuse profane and old wives' fables</b>
      
      
        , and exercise thyself rather unto 
      
      
        <b>godliness.</b>
      
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         8.  For 
      
      
        <b>bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things</b>
      
      
        , 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 
      
      
        <b>we both labour and suffer reproach, </b>
      
      
        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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        <b>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.</b>
      
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         13.  Till I come, 
      
      
        <b>give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.</b>
      
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        <b>Neglect not the gift that is in thee</b>
      
      
        , 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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        <b>Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine</b>
      
      
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        <b> continue in them: </b>
      
      
        for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
      
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