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False Asceticism

 

 

1 Timothy 4

 

 

1 Now the Spirit speaketh evidently, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, and shall give heed unto spirits of error, and doctrines of devils,

 

2 Which speak lies through hypocrisy, and have their consciences burned with a hot iron,

 

3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with giving thanks of them which believe and know the truth.

 

4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing ought to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving.

 

5 For it is sanctified by the word of God, and prayer.

 

6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, which hast been nourished up in the words of faith, and of good doctrine, which thou hast continually followed.

 

7 But cast away profane, and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself unto godliness.

 

8 For bodily exercise profiteth little, but godliness is profitable unto all things, which hath the promise of the life present, and of that which is to come.

 

9 This is a true saying, and by all means worthy to be received.

 

10 For therefore we labor and are rebuked, because we trust in the living God, which is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

 

11 These things command and teach.

 

12 Let no man despise thy youth, but be unto them that believe, an example, in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in pureness.

 

13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.

 

14 Despise not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the company of the Eldership.

 

15 These things exercise, and give thyself unto them, that it may be seen how thou profitest among all men.

 

16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto learning; continue therein, for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.