{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/1-timothy/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T07:36:06.524Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"1 Timothy","bookSlug":"1-timothy","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":6,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"speaking lies in hypocrisy, cauterised as to their own conscience,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"for it is sanctified by God's word and freely addressing him."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Laying 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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"for 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."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptation;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"for, 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."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Enjoin and teach these things."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Be 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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Occupy thyself with these things; be wholly in them, that thy progress may be manifest to all."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Give heed to thyself and to the teaching; continue in them; for, doing this, thou shalt save both thyself and those that hear thee."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Timothy 4 (DBT)","markdown":"[1 Timothy 4](https://primebible.com/dbt/1-timothy/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/1-timothy/4 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}