3. forbidding to marry, bidding to abstain from meats, which God has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.
4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, being received with thanksgiving;
5. for it is sanctified by God's word and freely addressing him.
6. Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.
7. But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;
8. for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.
9. The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptation;