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But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart[a] from the faith, paying-attention-to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons by means of the hypocrisy of liars having been seared as to their own conscience— forbidding to marry, commanding to abstain from foods which God created for a receiving with thanksgiving by the ones who are believers and know[b] the truth. Because every creature of God is good. And nothing being received with thanksgiving is to be rejected, for it is sanctified[c] by the word of God and prayer.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 4:1 Or, withdraw, revolt, apostatize.
  2. 1 Timothy 4:3 Or, have come-to-know.
  3. 1 Timothy 4:5 Or, made holy, set apart to God’s use.

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