Doctrines of demons
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📚Now the Spirit✭ clearly states that in later times some will depart from the faith✭, giving attention to seducing spirits✭ and doctrines of demons, 2 📚✭speaking lies in hypocrisy✭, having their conscience seared as with a hot iron, 3 📚✭forbidding to marry✭, and commanding to abstain from foods✭ which God created to be received with thanksgiving✭ by those who believe and know the truth. 4 📚For everything created by God is good✭, and nothing is to be refused, if received with thanksgiving, 5 📚✭for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. A good minister of Jesus Christ
6 📚If you remind the brethren of these things, you will be a good servant of Jesus Christ✭, nourished by the words of faith and good doctrine that you have followed.
Rejecting unnecessary matters
7 📚But reject godless stories✭ and old wives’ tales✭, and, instead, train yourself in godliness✭. 8 📚For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, holding promise✭ for the present life and for that which is to come.
9 📚This is a trustworthy saying and worthy of full acceptance. 10 📚For this reason we both labour✭ and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God✭, who is the Saviour✭ of all men, especially of those who believe.
11 📚Command and teach✭ these things✭.
Setting a good example
12 📚Let no man look down on your youthfulness✭, but be an example✭ to the believers in speech, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity✭. 13 📚Until I come, apply yourself to reading✭, to exhortation, to instruction✭.
Using spiritual gifts and abilities
14 📚Do not neglect✭ the gift✭ that is in you that was given to you by prophecy✭, with the elders laying hands on you.✭
Dedicating oneself completely