1 Timothy 4:4-14
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4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
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5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
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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.
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7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
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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.
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9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
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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.
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11 These things command and teach.
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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.
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13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
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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.