¹ But the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, cleaving to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons,

² in lying speakers in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience,

³ forbidding to marry, saying to abstain from foods, which God created for partaking with thanksgiving by the believers and those knowing the truth.

⁴ Because every creature of God is good, and nothing to be thrust away, but having been received with thanksgiving;

⁵ for through God's Word and prayerful intercourse, it is sanctified.

⁶ Having suggested these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, having been nourished by the words of faith, and by the good doctrine which you have followed.

⁷ But refuse the profane and old-womanish tales. And exercise yourself to godliness.

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable to a little, but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the present life and of that coming.

⁹ Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance;

¹⁰ for to this we also labor and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is deliverer of all men, especially of believers.

¹¹ Enjoin and teach these things.

¹² Let no one despise your youth, but become an example of the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

¹³ Until I come, attend to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

¹⁴ Do not be neglectful of the gift in you, which was given to you through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the elderhood.

¹⁵ Give care to these things; be in these things in order that your progress may be plain in all.

¹⁶ Give attention to yourself and to the doctrine; continue in them, for doing this, you will both deliver yourself and those hearing you.