⁴ For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected that is received with thanksgiving:

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

⁶ These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.

⁷ But avoid foolish and old wives' fables: and exercise thyself unto godliness.

⁸ For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

¹⁶ Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.