¹Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

¹Duh pa razločno pravi, da bodo v poslednjih časih nekateri odpadli od vere in poslušali zapeljive duhove in nauke hudobnih duhov,

²Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

²vsled licemerstva lažigovornikov, ki nosijo vžgano znamenje v svoji vesti,

³Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

³ki branijo ženiti se in možiti in zapovedujejo zdrževati se jedil, katera je Bog ustvaril, da jih z zahvaljevanjem uživajo verni in ti, ki so spoznali resnico.

⁴For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:

⁴Kajti vsaka stvar Božja je dobra in ničesar ni, da bi zametali, ako prejemljemo z zahvaljevanjem:

⁵For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

⁵posvečuje se namreč po besedi Božji in molitvi.

⁶If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

⁶To naročajoč bratom, bodeš dober služabnik Kristusa Jezusa, vzrejen v besedah vere in dobrega nauka, ki si mu doslej sledil.

⁷But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

⁷Posvetne in starobabje basni pa zavračaj. Vadi se pa v pobožnosti;

⁸For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

⁸zakaj telesna vaja je za malo koristna, pobožnost pa je za vse koristna, ker ima obljubo življenja sedanjega in prihodnjega.

⁹This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

⁹Resnična je ta beseda in vsekakor vredna, da se sprejme.

¹⁰For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.

¹⁰Kajti zato se tudi trudimo in nas sramoté, ker smo upanje svoje postavili na živega Boga, ki je Rešitelj vseh ljudi, sosebno vernih.

¹¹These things command and teach.

¹¹Zapoveduj to in úči!

¹²Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

¹²Nihče naj ne zaničuje mladosti tvoje; marveč zgled bodi vernim v besedi, v vedenju, v ljubezni, v veri, v čistosti.

¹³Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

¹³Dokler ne pridem, bodi priden v branju, opominjanju, poučevanju.

¹⁴Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

¹⁴Ne zanemarjaj daru milosti, ki je v tebi, ki ti je bil dan po proroštvu s pokladanjem rok starejšinstva.

¹⁵Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

¹⁵Za to skrbi, v tem bivaj, da bode napredek tvoj očiten vsem.Pazi nase in na svoj nauk. Stanoviten bodi v tem; kajti to delajoč, boš rešil sebe in nje, ki te poslušajo.

¹⁶Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

¹⁶Pazi nase in na svoj nauk. Stanoviten bodi v tem; kajti to delajoč, boš rešil sebe in nje, ki te poslušajo.