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4:1 icapsow the Spirit speaketh expresly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giuing heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of deuils:  
4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisie, hauing their conscience seared with a hote iron,  
4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to absteine from meates, which God hath created to bee receiued with thankesgiuing of them which beleeue, and know the trueth.  
4:4 For euery creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be receiued with thankesgiuing:  
4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.  
4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Iesus Christ, nourished vp in the wordes of faith, and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.  
4:7 But refuse prophane and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe rather vnto godlinesse.  
4:8 For bodily exercise profiteth litle, but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, hauing promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. Margin Note
4:9 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation:  
4:10 For therfore we both labour, and suffer reproch, because we trust in the liuing God, who is the Sauiour of all men, specially of those that beleeue.  
4:11 These things command & teach.  
4:12 Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the beleeuers, in word, in conuersation, in charitie, in spirit, in faith, in puritie.  
4:13 Till I come, giue attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.  
4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was giuen thee by prophesie, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbyterie.  
4:15 Meditate vpon these things, giue thy selfe wholly to them, that thy profiting may appeare to all. Margin Note
4:16 Take heed vnto thy selfe, and vnto the doctrine: continue in them: for in doing this, thou shalt both saue thy selfe, and them that heare thee.