003:015 But, for fear I may be hindered, I now write, so that you
may have rules to guide you in dealing with God's household.
For this is what the Church of the ever-living God is,
and it is the pillar and foundation-stone of the truth.
003:016 And, beyond controversy, great is the mystery of our religion--
that Christ appeared in human form, and His claims justified
by the Spirit, was seen by angels and proclaimed among
Gentile nations, was believed on in the world, and received
up again into glory.
004:001 Now the Spirit expressly declares that in later times some will
fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits
and the teachings of demons;
004:002 through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely and have their
own consciences seared as with a hot iron;
004:003 forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods
which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness,
by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.
004:004 For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is
to be cast aside, if only it is received with thanksgiving.
004:005 For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.
004:006 If you warn the brethren of these dangers you will be a good and
faithful servant of Christ Jesus, inwardly feeding on the lessons
of the faith and of the sound teaching of which you have been,
and are, so close a follower.
004:007 But worldly stories, fit only for credulous old women,
have nothing to do with.
004:008 Train yourself in godliness. Exercise for the body is not useless,
but godliness is useful in every respect, possessing, as it does,
the promise of Life now and of the Life which is soon coming.
004:009 Faithful is this saying and deserving of universal acceptance: