Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

The statement [is] trustworthy and deserving of complete acceptance.

Command these [things] and teach [them].

by the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their own conscience,

Practice these [things]. Be [diligent] in these [things], in order that your progress may be evident to everyone.

because everything created by God [is] good and nothing [is to be] rejected [if it is] received with thankfulness,

who forbid marrying [and insist on] abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth,

Fix [your] attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for [by] doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

But reject those {worthless myths told by elderly women}, and train yourself for godliness.

Do not neglect the gift [that is] in you, that was granted to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

For to this [end] we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in [the] living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

Until I come, pay attention to the [public] reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

For the training of the body is {somewhat} profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, [because it] holds promise for the present life and for the [life] to come.

[By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.