| 1 | And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, |
| 2 | in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience, |
| 3 | forbidding to marry—to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, |
| 4 | because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received, |
| 5 | for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession. |
| 6 | These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after, |
| 7 | and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety, |
| 8 | for the bodily exercise is unto little profit, and the piety is to all things profitable, a promise having of the life that now is, and of that which is coming; |
| 9 | stedfast [is] the word, and of all acceptation worthy; |
| 10 | for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men— especially of those believing. |
| 11 | Charge these things, and teach; |
| 12 | let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity; |
| 13 | till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching; |
| 14 | be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership; |
| 15 | of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things; |
| 16 | take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee. |