I Timothy 4

¹ Now the spirit explicitly says that in the latter seasons¹ () some will withdraw from the faith, giving heed to deceptive spirits and teachings of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, their own conscience seared, ³ hindering² to be marrying, [commanding] to be abstaining from foods, which God created for sharing with thanks to those believing and having known the truth. ⁴ For every creation of God is good, and nothing [is to be] rejected, being received with thanksgiving. ⁵ For it is made holy through [the] word of God and thankful prayer. ⁶ Having made these [things] known to the brothers, you will be [a] good servant of Christ Jesus, brought up in the words of faith and of good teaching, which you have followed. ⁷ But be refusing profane and old-wives tales. Rather be exercising yourself for godliness. ⁸ For bodily exercise is little profitable, but godliness is profitable towards everything, having promise of zoe-life³ now and to come. ⁹ Trustworthy [is this] word and worthy of all acceptance. ¹⁰ For this therefore we labor and we struggle, because we have hoped on [the] zoe-living³ God, who is savior of all men, especially of [those] believing. ¹¹ Be commanding and be teaching these [things]. ¹² Let⁴ no one be despising your youth, but become [a] pattern for the believers in word, in conduct, in agape-love, in faith, in purity. ¹³ Until I come, be occupying yourself with reading, with exhortation, with teaching. ¹⁴ Be not neglecting your gift, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elder. ¹⁵ Be cultivating these [things], be in them, in order that your progress be evident to all. ¹⁶ Be attending to yourself, and to [your] teaching, be persevering in them, for doing this you will save yourself and those hearing you.

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¹KAIROS (καιρoς ) `opportune time', `proper time', `season'

²or "forbidding"

³from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example: Matt.9:18, Matt.27:63, Luke.2:36, Acts.25:24, Rom.7:2, 2Cor.1:8, 1Thes.4:17, 1Tim.5:10, Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of Luke.15:13, Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see 1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.

⁴imperative