¹But the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will depart from the trust, giving heed to deceitful spirits and to teachings of demons,

²in hypocrisy of speakers of lies, seared in their own conscience,

³forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods that God created for reception with thanksgiving by the faithful and by those already knowing the truth.

⁴For every creature of God is good, and no thing is to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving;

⁵for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

⁶Laying these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of the Anointed One Jesus, being nourished in the words of the trust and of the good teaching that you have closely followed;

⁷but refuse profane and silly fables, and rather train yourself to godliness.

⁸For bodily exercise is of a little profit, but godliness is profitable for everything, holding the promise of the life of the present and of which is coming.

⁹Trustworthy is the saying and worthy of full acceptance.

¹⁰For towards this also we toil and strive, because we have hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.

¹¹Command these things and teach.

¹²Let no one despise your youth, but be a pattern for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in trust, in purity.

¹³Until I come, give heed to the public reading of Scripture, to the exhortation, to the teaching,

¹⁴Be not negligent of the gift in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elderhood.

¹⁵Ponder these things, be absorbed in them, so that your progress may be evident in all.

¹⁶Give heed to yourself and to the teaching; continue in them; for doing this you will rescue both yourself and those who hear you.