谨防伪君子
1圣灵明确地说，日后必有人离弃真道，去追随那些迷惑人的邪灵和鬼魔的学说。 2这些学说是出自假冒伪善的骗子，他们良心丧尽，麻木不仁4:2 “良心丧尽，麻木不仁”希腊文是“良心被烙铁烫过”。， 3禁止人结婚和吃某些食物。其实那些食物是上帝创造的，为了让相信并且明白真理的人存感谢的心领受。 4上帝所造的一切都是美好的，若以感恩的心去领受，就无需任何禁忌， 5因为上帝的道和人的祷告可以使食物圣洁。
6你要提醒弟兄姊妹这些事，这样你就是基督耶稣的好仆人，会不断地从你所信的真道和所遵行的美好教导上得到造就。
做信徒的榜样
7但你要弃绝世俗、荒诞的传说，要训练自己做个敬虔的人。 8锻炼体魄益处还少，敬虔生活受益无穷，拥有今生和永世的应许。 9这话真实可信，值得完全接受。 10我们努力奋斗正是为了这个目的，因为我们的盼望在于永活的上帝。祂是全人类的救主，更是信徒的救主。 11你要吩咐和教导这些事。
12不要因为年轻而叫人小看你，总要在言语、行为、爱心、信心和纯洁各方面做信徒的榜样。 13在我来之前，你要专心宣读圣经，勉励会众，教导真理。 14不要忽略你的恩赐，那是借着预言在众长老把手按在你身上时赐给你的。 15你要全心全意地做这些事，让大家都看到你的长进。 16你要注意自己的言行和教导，要持之以恒。这样，你不但能救自己，也能救那些听你教导的人。
1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: 5For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. 6If 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, whereunto thou hast attained. 7But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 8For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. 9This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. 10For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
11These things command and teach. 12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. 13Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. 14Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. 16Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
