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,

² in the hypocrisy from falsely speaking men, who have their own conscience branded,

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 Because every created thing of God is good thing, and nothing is to be cast off if received with thanksgiving,

⁵ for$ it is made holy through the word of God and through petition.

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.

⁷ But renounce the profane and old-wives’ fables and exercise yourself to devoutness;

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.

⁹ The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

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.

¹¹ Command and teach these things.

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.

¹³ Until I come, take-heed to the public-reading, to the encouragement, to the teaching.

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.

¹⁵ Meditate on and be in these things, in-order-that your progress may be apparent in all things.

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.