1 B ut the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons

2 s peaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience,

3 f orbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

4 F or every creature of God good, and nothing to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;

5 f or it is sanctified by God's word and freely addressing.

6 L aying 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.

7 B ut profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;

8 f or 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.

9 T he word faithful and worthy of all acceptation;

10 f or, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.

11 E njoin and teach these things.

12 L et no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

13 T ill I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

14 B e not negligent of the gift in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood.

15 O ccupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all.

16 G ive heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.