The spirit speaketh evidently that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall give heed unto spirits of error,

Let no man despise thy youth; but be unto them that believe, an example: in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith and in pureness.

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

This is a sure saying, and of all parties worthy to be received.

Such things command and teach.

and devilish doctrine of them which speak false through hypocrisy, and have their consciences marked with a hot iron,

These things exercise, and give thyself unto them, that it may be seen how thou profitest in all things.

For all the creatures of God are good: and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with giving thanks, of them which believe, and know the truth.

Take heed unto thyself and unto learning, and continue therein. For if thou shalt so do, thou shalt save thyself, and them that hear thee.

But cast away unghostly and old wives' fables. Exercise thyself unto godliness.

Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee through prophecy, and with laying on of the hands of an elder.

For therefore we labour and suffer rebuke, because we believe in the living God, which is the saviour of all men: but specially of those that believe.

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.

For bodily exercise profiteth little: But godliness is good unto all things, as a thing which hath promises of the life that is now, and of the life to come.

If thou shalt put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ which hast been nourished up in the words of the faith, and good doctrine, which doctrine thou hast continually followed.