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1 Timothy 4
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 (4:1-3)
"In the latter times" people won't get married or eat meat.
What should we eat?
Is marriage a good thing?
What the Bible says about vegetarians
(4:1) "In the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils."
(4:3) "Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats."
(4:4) "Every creature of God is good [to eat], and nothing to be refused."
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| 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
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| 4:2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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| 4:3
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with
thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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| 4:4
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be
received with thanksgiving:
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For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
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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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| 4:7
But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto
godliness. |
 (4:7) "Refuse ... old wives' fables."
What about old husbands' fables? Old Bible fables?
(4:8) "Bodily exercise profiteth little."
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| 4:8
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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| 4:9
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
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| 4:10
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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 (4:10) "The living God, who is The Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe."
"The living God" is the saviour of "all men" -- especially (but not exclusively) of those that believe. So even nonbelievers
will be saved.
Does hell exist?
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| 4:11
These things command and teach.
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| 4:12
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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| 4:13
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. |
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| 4:14
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy,
with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. |
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| 4:15
Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy
profiting may appear to all. |
(4:16) "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in
doing this thou shalt both save thyself."
What you must do to be saved.
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| 4:16
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in
doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
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