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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "1TI-4:1",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.1",
        "text": "But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,"
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        "n": 2,
        "refId": "1TI-4:2",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.2",
        "text": "through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "1TI-4:3",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.3",
        "text": "forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth."
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        "n": 4,
        "refId": "1TI-4:4",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.4",
        "text": "For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "1TI-4:5",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.5",
        "text": "for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer."
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        "n": 6,
        "refId": "1TI-4:6",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.6",
        "text": "If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now]:"
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        "n": 7,
        "refId": "1TI-4:7",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.7",
        "text": "but refuse profane and old wives` fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:"
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "1TI-4:8",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.8",
        "text": "for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come."
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        "n": 9,
        "refId": "1TI-4:9",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.9",
        "text": "Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "1TI-4:10",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.10",
        "text": "For to this end we labor and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of them that believe."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "1TI-4:11",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.11",
        "text": "These things command and teach."
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        "n": 12,
        "refId": "1TI-4:12",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.12",
        "text": "Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity."
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        "n": 13,
        "refId": "1TI-4:13",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.13",
        "text": "Till I come, give heed to reading, to exhortation, to teaching."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "1TI-4:14",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.14",
        "text": "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "1TI-4:15",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.15",
        "text": "Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "1TI-4:16",
        "verseRef": "1TI.4.16",
        "text": "Take heed to thyself, and to thy teaching. Continue in these things; for in doing this thou shalt save both thyself and them that hear thee."
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