1 Timoteo 4

¹ But 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 speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience, ³ forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth. ⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving; ⁵ for it is sanctified by God's word and freely addressing him .

⁶ Laying 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 But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety; ⁸ for 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 The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptation; ¹⁰ for, 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 Enjoin and teach these things. ¹² Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. ¹⁴ Be not negligent of the gift that is in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood. ¹⁵ Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all. ¹⁶ Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.