1 Timothy 4

1. ¹But the spirit seith opynli, that in the laste tymes summen schulen departe fro the feith, yyuynge tent to spiritis of errour, and to techingis of deuelis; that speken leesing in ipocrisie,
2. ²and haue her conscience corrupt,
3. ³forbedinge to be weddid, to absteyne fro metis, whiche God made to take with doyng of thankingis, to feithful men, and hem that han knowe the treuthe.
4. ⁴For ech creature of God is good, and no thing is to be cast awei, which is takun with doyng of thankyngis;
5. ⁵for it is halewid bi the word of God, and bi preyer.
6. ⁶Thou puttynge forth these thingis to britheren, schalt be a good mynystre of Crist Jhesu; nurschid with wordis of feith and of good doctryne, which thou hast gete.
7. ⁷But eschewe thou vncouenable fablis, and elde wymmenus fablis; haunte thi silf to pitee.
8. ⁸For bodili exercitation is profitable to litle thing; but pitee is profitable to alle thingis, that hath a biheest of lijf that now is, and that is to come.
9. ⁹A trewe word, and worthi al acceptacioun.
10. ¹⁰And in this thing we trauelen, and ben cursid, for we hopen in lyuyng God, that is sauyour of alle men, moost of feithful men.
11. ¹¹Comaunde thou this thing, and teche.
12. ¹²No man dispise thi yongthe, but be thou ensaumple of feithful men in word, in lyuyng, in charite, in feith, in chastite.
13. ¹³Tyl Y come, take tent to redyng, to exortacioun and teching.
14. ¹⁴Nyle thou litil charge the grace which is in thee, that is youun to thee bi profecie, with putting on of the hondis of preesthod.
15. ¹⁵Thenke thou these thingis, in these be thou, that thi profiting be schewid to alle men.
16. ¹⁶Take tent to thi silf and to doctryn; be bisi in hem. For thou doynge these thingis, schalt `make bothe thi silf saaf, and hem that heren thee.

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