1 Timothy 4:6–16

⁶Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up. ⁷But profane and old wives’ fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety; ⁸for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come. ⁹The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptation; ¹⁰for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe. ¹¹Enjoin and teach these things. ¹²Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. ¹³Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching. ¹⁴Be not negligent of the gift that is in thee, which has been given to thee through prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the elderhood. ¹⁵Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all. ¹⁶Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee.