^4:1 But the Spirit expressly says, Some will be withdrawing from the faith in later times, taking-heed to misleading spirits and teachings of demons, ^4:2 in the hypocrisy from falsely speaking men, who have their own conscience branded, ^4:3 forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from foods, which God created ^*for reception with thanksgiving to the believing and who have fully known the truth. ^4:4 Because every created thing of God is good thing, and nothing is to be cast off if received with thanksgiving, ^4:5 for^* it is made holy through the word of God and through petition.

      ^4:6 When you are suggesting these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ, being nourished in the words of the faith and of the good teaching of which you have followed closely. ^4:7 But renounce the profane and old-wives’ fables and exercise yourself to devoutness; ^4:8 for^* bodily exercise is profitable ^*for few things, but devoutness is profitable ^*for all things, has the promise of life the current one and the future one.

      ^4:9 The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptance. ^4:10 For^* we are also laboring and are reproached toward this end, because we have hoped upon the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of the believing ones. ^4:11 Command and teach these things.

      ^4:12 Let no one despise your youth, but become an example of the believing ones in word, in conduct, in love^*, in spirit, in faith, in purity. ^4:13 Until I come, take-heed to the public-reading, to the encouragement, to the teaching. ^4:14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift^* in you, which was given to you through prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. ^4:15 Meditate on and be in these things, in-order-that your progress may be apparent in all things. ^4:16 Take-heed to yourself and to the teaching. Abide in them; for^* while practicing this, you will be saving both yourself and the ones hearing you.