1 Timothy 4:1-8 ▼

1 But the Spirit says positively, that in the last times certain ones will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and to the teachings of demons,

2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience,

3 forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from meats, which God created for reception with thanksgiving to the faithful and to those perfectly knowing the truth.

4 Because every creature of God is good, and nothing rejected, being received with thanksgiving:

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

6 Submitting these things to the brethren, you will be a beautiful minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith, and the beautiful teaching which you have followed;

7 but reject the unsanctified and silly stories: but exercise yourself unto godliness.

8 For bodily exercise is profitable unto little; but godliness is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.