{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "1 Timothy",
 "chapter": 4,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;"
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Forbidding 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:"
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "If 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "For 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "For 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "These things command and teach."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Let 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee."
  }
 ],
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 "church": "https://crawlerschurch.org",
 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}