1. And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
2. in hypocrisy speaking lies, being seared in their own conscience,
3. forbidding to marry--to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,
4. because every creature of God [is] good, and nothing [is] to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,
5. for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.
6. These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,
7. and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,