1 Timóteo 4

¹ The sprete speaketh evydently that in the latter tymes some shall departe from the fayth and shall geve hede vnto spretes of erroure and dyvelysshe doctrine of them

² which speake falce thorow ypocrisye and have their consciences marked with an hote yron

³ forbyddinge to mary and commaundinge to abstayne from meates which God hath created to be receaved with gevynge thankes of them which beleve and knowe ye trueth.

⁴ For all the creatures of God are good and nothynge to be refused yf it be receaved with thankes gevynge.

⁵ For it is sanctyfyed by the worde of God and prayer.

⁶ Yf thou shalt put the brethren in remembraunce of these thynges thou shalt be a good minister of Iesu Christ which hast bene norisshed vp in the wordes of the fayth and good doctryne which doctryne thou hast continually followed.

⁷ But cast awaye vngostly and olde wyves fables.Exercyse thy silfe vnto godlines.

⁸ For bodely exercise proffiteth lyttll: But godlines is good vnto all thynges as a thynge which hath promyses of the lyfe that is now and of the lyfe to come.

⁹ This is a sure sayinge and of all parties worthy to be receaved.

¹⁰ For therfore we laboure and suffre rebuke because we beleve in the livynge god which is the savioure of all men: but specially of those that beleve.

¹¹ Suche thynges commaunde and teache.

¹² Let no man despyse thy youth: but be vnto them that beleve an insample in worde in conversacion in love in sprete in fayth and in purenes.

¹³ Till I come geve attendaunce to redynge to exhortacion and to doctryne.

¹⁴ Despyse not the gyfte that is in ye which was geven the thorow prophesye and with layinge on of ye hondes of an elder.

¹⁵ These thynges exercyse and geve thy silfe vnto them that it maye be sene how thou profetest in all thinges.

¹⁶ Take hede vnto thy silfe and vnto learnynge and continue therin. For if thou shalt so do thou shalt save thy silfe and them that heare the.