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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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| 4:2 |
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; |
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| 4:3 |
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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| 4:4 |
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: |
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| 4:5 |
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. |
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| 4:6 |
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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| 4:7 |
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. |
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| 4:8 |
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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This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. |
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| 4:10 |
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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| 4:11 |
These things command and teach. |
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| 4:12 |
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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| 4:13 |
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. |
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| 4:14 |
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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| 4:15 |
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. |
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| 4:16 |
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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