1 Timothy 4
About 1 Timothy 1 Timothy is Paul's guidance to a young leader about sound teaching, worship and church leadership.
1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;Selected1 Timothy 4:1Ask
2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;Selected1 Timothy 4:2Ask
3Forbidding 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.Selected1 Timothy 4:3Ask
4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:Selected1 Timothy 4:4Ask
5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.Selected1 Timothy 4:5Ask
6If 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.Selected1 Timothy 4:6Ask
7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.Selected1 Timothy 4:7Ask
8For 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.Selected1 Timothy 4:8Ask
9This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.Selected1 Timothy 4:9Ask
10For 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.Selected1 Timothy 4:10Ask
11These things command and teach.Selected1 Timothy 4:11Ask
12Let 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.Selected1 Timothy 4:12Ask
13Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.Selected1 Timothy 4:13Ask
14Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.Selected1 Timothy 4:14Ask
15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.Selected1 Timothy 4:15Ask
16Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.Selected1 Timothy 4:16Ask
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