41But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons+2speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience,+3forbidding to marry, [bidding] to abstain from meats, whichGod has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.+4For every creature ofGod [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;+5for it is sanctified byGod's word and freely addressing [him].+
A Good Servant of Jesus Christ
6Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.+7But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;+8for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.+9The word [is] faithful and worthy of all acceptation;+10for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a livingGod, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.+11Enjoin and teach these things.+12Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.+13Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.+14Be not negligent of the gift [that is] in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood.+15Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.+16Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.+
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