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4 Now God’s Spirit tells us clearly that in these later times some people will stop believing the true message about Jesus. Instead, they will listen to evil spirits who deceive people, and to the false things that these evil spirits teach. 2 The evil spirits teach these things through people who lie and only pretend to do what is right. These people do not even feel guilty when they teach false things. 3 They prevent people from marrying. They tell them that they must not eat certain kinds of food. But God created that food as something for us to receive from him and to thank him for. He created it for us who believe in him and who know what is true. 4 Everything that God has made is good. Any kind of food is acceptable to eat if we thank God for it when we eat it. 5 When we pray to God and believe what he said, that everything he created was good, then the food that we eat is acceptable to him. 6 If you keep teaching these things to your fellow believers, you will be serving Jesus the Messiah well. You will become strong spiritually as you obey the true message that we all believe. That true message is the good teaching that you have been following. 7 But have nothing to do with the worthless, foolish stories. Instead, train yourself to do the things that please God. 8 Remember that “training your body helps you a little bit, but learning to do the things that please God helps you in every way. It is good for you both as you live now on earth and as you live in the future with God.” 9 Everyone should trust this statement and accept it completely. 10 For this reason we work as hard as we can, because we confidently expect that the living God will do the things that he has promised. He is the Savior of all humanity, but particularly the Savior of those who believe. 11 Teach the believers about these things and insist that they do them.
12 Do not allow anyone to say that you do not matter because you are young. Instead, show other believers how to live. Show them this by how you speak, how you behave, how you love others, how you trust God, and how you keep yourself sexually pure. 13 Until I come back to you, be sure to continue reading the Scriptures to the believers when you meet together, teaching the Scriptures to the believers, and urging them to obey the Scriptures. 14 Be sure to use the gift that you have, which God gave to you when the leaders of the church laid their hands on you and told you what God had revealed to them about you. 15 Put into practice all these things that I have told you to do! Concentrate on them so that everyone will see how much you are improving as a follower of Jesus.
16 Be very careful about the way that you behave and about the things that you teach. Keep doing these things, because God is using them to save not only you, but also the people who listen to you.