The Great Apostasy

Now the Spirit [a]expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed (A)to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, (B)speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience (C)seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving; for it is [b]sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 4:1 explicitly
  2. 1 Timothy 4:5 set apart

Now de the ho Spirit pneuma clearly rhētōs says legō that hoti in en the last hysteros times kairos some tis of the ho faith pistis will apostatize aphistēmi by being devoted to prosechō deceitful planos spirits pneuma and kai teachings didaskalia of demons daimonion, by en the hypocrisy hypokrisis of liars pseudologos whose own idios consciences syneidēsis have been seared kaustēriazō, · ho forbidding kōlyō to marry gameō, demanding apechō abstinence from foods brōma that hos · ho God theos created ktizō to be eis received metalēmpsis with meta thanksgiving eucharistia by those ho who are faithful pistos and kai know epiginōskō the ho truth alētheia, since hoti all pas of God’ s theos creation ktisma is good kalos, and kai nothing oudeis is unclean apoblētos if it is received lambanō with meta thanksgiving eucharistia; for gar it is sanctified hagiazō through dia the word logos of God theos and kai prayer enteuxis.

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