1. Timotheus Kapitel 4 -

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.

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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:

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

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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.

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

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⁵ For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.

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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.

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

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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. [ || Or, for a little time. ]

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

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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.

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¹¹ These things command & teach.

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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.

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¹³ Till I come, giue attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

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¹⁴ Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophesie, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie.

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¹⁵ Meditate vpon these things, giue thy selfe wholly to them, that thy profiting may appeare || to all. [ || Or, in all things. ]

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¹⁶ Take heed vnto thy selfe, and vnto the doctrine: continue in them: for in doing this, thou shalt both saue thy selfe, and them that heare thee.