Book of Common Prayer

4 ¹ 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 ² by means of the hypocrisy of liars having been seared as to their own conscience— ³ 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. ⁴ Because every creature of God is good. And nothing being received with thanksgiving is to be rejected, ⁵ for it is sanctified^[c] by the word of God and prayer. ⁶ While pointing-out these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, while being nourished in the words of the faith and the good teaching which you have closely-followed. ⁷ But be declining^[d] the profane^[e] and old-womanish myths.

But You Be Training Yourself For Godliness In Your Character And Teaching

But be training^[f] yourself for godliness. ⁸ For bodily training is profitable for a little, but godliness is profitable for all things— having promise for the present life and the one coming. ⁹ The saying is trustworthy and worthy of full acceptance. ¹⁰ For we are laboring and struggling^[g] for this^[h], because we have put our hope upon the living God, Who is the Savior of all people— especially of believers. ¹¹ Be commanding and teaching these things. ¹² Let no one be-looking-down-on^[i] your youth, but be a pattern for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come^[j], be paying-attention-to the reading^[k], the exhortation, the teaching. ¹⁴ Do not be careless^[l] of the gift in you, which was given to you through a prophecy with the laying-on of the hands of the council-of-elders. ¹⁵ Be taking-care-with these things, be in these things, in order that your progress may be evident to everyone. ¹⁶ Be fixing-your-attention-on yourself and your teaching. Be continuing in them. For while doing this, you will save both yourself and the ones hearing you.

A Field Is Sown With Good And Bad Seed: At Harvest The Weeds Will Be Burned

²⁴ He put-before them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of the heavens became-like^[a] a man having sown good seed in his field. ²⁵ But during the men’s sleeping, his enemy came and re-sowed^[b] darnel^[c] between the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ Now when the grass budded and produced fruit^[d], then the darnel appeared also. ²⁷ And having come to him, the slaves of the house-master said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then from where does it have the darnel?’ ²⁸ And the one said to them, ‘A hostile man did this’. And the slaves say to him, ‘Then do you want us, having gone, to collect them?’ ²⁹ But the one says, ‘No, that while collecting the darnel, you may not perhaps uproot the wheat together with them. ³⁰ Permit both to grow together until the harvest. And at the time of the harvest I will say to the harvesters, “Collect first the darnel, and bind them into bundles so-as to burn them up. But gather the wheat into my barn”’”.