1 Timothy 4:1-8 ▼

1 Now the Spirit expressly declares that in later times some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons;

2 through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely and have their own consciences seared as with a hot iron;

3 forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.

4 For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be cast aside, if only it is received with thanksgiving.

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

6 If you warn the brethren of these dangers you will be a good and faithful servant of Christ Jesus, inwardly feeding on the lessons of the faith and of the sound teaching of which you have been, and are, so close a follower.

7 But worldly stories, fit only for credulous old women, have nothing to do with.

8 Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless, but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does, the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.