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: |
4:5 | 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. |
4:7 | 只是要棄絕那世俗的言語、和老婦荒渺的話、在敬虔上操練自己。 |
4:7 | 只是要弃绝那世俗的言语,和老妇荒渺的话,在敬虔上操练自己。 |
1ti:6:20 | O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: |
2ti:2:16 | But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. |
1ti:1:4 | Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. |
2ti:4:4 | And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. |
tit:1:14 | Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. |
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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. |