| 4:1 | Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; |
| 4:2 | Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; |
| 4:3 | Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. |
| 4:4 | For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: |
| 4:4 | 凡 神所造的物、都是好的．若感謝著領受、就沒有一樣可棄的． |
| 4:4 | 凡神所造的物，都是好的。若感谢着领受，就没有一样可弃的。 |
| rom:14:2 | For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. |
| rom:14:14 | I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean. |
| rom:14:20 | For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. |
| tit:1:15 | Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. |
| gen:1:25 | And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. |
| gen:1:31 | And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. |
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| 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 Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. |
| 4:7 | But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. |
| 4:8 | For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having 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 therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. |
| 4:11 | These things command and teach. |
| 4:12 | Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. |
| 4:13 | Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. |
| 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 upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. |
| 4:16 | Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. |
