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title: 1 Timothy 4
slug: kjv-nt/1-timothy-4
createdAt: 2024-09-15T01:32:48.333Z
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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; **2 **Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; **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. **4 **For every creature of God *is* good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: **5 **For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

**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. **7 **But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself *rather* unto godliness. **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. **9 **This *is* a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. **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.

**11 **These things command and teach. **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. **13 **Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. **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. **15 **Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. **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.