Godbey - I Timothy - 4

4:1  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,

4:2  speaking lies in hypocrisy, having been cauterized as to their own conscience,

4:3  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.

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

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

4:6  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;

4:7  but reject the unsanctified and silly stories: but exercise yourself unto godliness.

4:8  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.

4:9  This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation.

4:10  For unto this we toil and agonize, because we have hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

4:11  Command and teach these things.

4:12  Let no one look with contempt upon your youth; but be you an example of the faithful, in word, in deportment, in divine love, in faith, in purity.

4:13  Until I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

4:14  Do not neglect the gift which is in you, which was given unto you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

4:15  Be diligent in these things; give yourself wholly unto them; in order that your progress may be manifest to all.

4:16  Take heed to yourself and the teaching: continue in these things; for doing this you will indeed save yourself and those who hear you.