THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO TIMOTHIE. (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV

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1 Timothy Chapter 4 Original 1611 KJV Bible Scan

CHAP. IV.

He foretelleth that in the latter times there shall be a departure from the faith. 6 And to the end that Timothie might not faile in doing his duetie, he furnisheth him with diuers precepts belonging thereto.

¹ Now the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giuing heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of deuils:

² Speaking lies in hypocrisie, hauing their conscience seared with a hote iron,

³ Forbidding to marry, and commanding to absteine from meates, which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue, and know the trueth.

⁴ For euery creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing:

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 Iesus Christ, nourished vp in the wordes of faith, and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

⁷ But refuse prophane and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe rather vnto godlinesse.

⁸ For bodily exercise profiteth litle, but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, hauing promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.⁸

⁹ This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation:

¹⁰ For therfore we both labour, and suffer reproch, because we trust in the liuing God, who is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue.

¹¹ These things command & teach.

¹² Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the beleeuers, in word, in conuersation, in charitie, in spirit, in faith, in puritie.