4 For every ^acreature of God is ^bgood, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with ^cthanksgiving:

  5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

  6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, ^awhereunto thou hast attained.

  7 But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

  8 For bodily exercise profiteth ^alittle: but ^bgodliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

  9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

  10 For therefore we both ^alabour and suffer ^breproach, because we ^ctrust in the living God, who is the ^dSaviour of all men, specially of those that ^ebelieve.

  11 These things command and teach.

  12 Let no man ^adespise thy youth; but be thou an ^bexample of the believers, in word, in ^cconversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in ^dpurity.

  13 Till I come, give attendance to ^areading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

  14 ^aNeglect not the ^bgift that is in thee, which was given thee by ^cprophecy, with the ^dlaying on of the ^ehands of the ^fpresbytery.

  15 ^aMeditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy ^bprofiting may ^cappear to all.

  16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both ^asave thyself, and them that hear thee.