Worsley - I Timothy - 4

4:1  Now the Spirit expressly saith, that in latter times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to seducing spirits,

4:2  and doctrines of demons founded in the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their own conscience, forbidding to marry,

4:3  and enjoining abstinence from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by those that believe and know the truth.

4:4  For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

4:5  for it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.

4:6  If thou lay these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, as one brought up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, to which thou hast attained.

4:7  But profane and groundless fables reject, and exercise thyself unto godliness.

4:8  For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:

4:9  this is a certain truth and worthy of all acceptance.

4:10  For to this end we both labour and suffer reproach, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

4:11  These things declare and teach.

4:12  Let no one have cause to despise thy youth; but he thou an example to believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

4:13  Till I come attend to reading, to exhortation, and teaching.

4:14  Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

4:15  Meditate on these things, be wholly in them, that thy proficiency may be manifest in all.

4:16  Take heed to thyself, and to thy doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this, thou wilt both save thyself and those that hear thee.