1 Pero el Espíritu dice claramente que en los últimos tiempos algunos se apartarán de la fe, siguiendo a espíritus engañadores y enseñanzas de demonios. 2 Harán esto por la hipocresía de mentirosos, cuya conciencia está marcada como con hierro caliente. 3 Estos prohibirán casarse y mandarán abstenerse de alimentos que Dios creó para que los creyentes, los que conocen la verdad, los reciban con acción de gracias. 4 Porque todo lo que Dios creó es bueno, y nada debe ser rechazado si se recibe con acción de gracias, 5 porque es santificado por la palabra de Dios y por la oración. 6 Si enseñas estas cosas a los hermanos, serás buen servidor de Jesucristo, alimentado con las palabras de la fe y de la buena doctrina que has seguido. 7 Pero rechaza los mitos profanos y cuentos de viejas. Más bien, entrénate para la piedad. 8 Porque el ejercicio físico aprovecha un poco, pero la piedad aprovecha para todo, pues tiene promesa para la vida presente y para la venidera. 9 Fiel es esta palabra, y digna de ser recibida por todos. 10 Por esto trabajamos y luchamos, porque hemos puesto nuestra esperanza en el Dios vivo, que es Salvador de todos los hombres, especialmente de los creyentes. 11 Manda y enseña estas cosas. 12 Que nadie te menosprecie por ser joven. Más bien, sé ejemplo para los creyentes en palabra, conducta, amor, espíritu, fe y pureza. 13 Mientras voy, dedícate a la lectura pública de las Escrituras, a la exhortación y a la enseñanza. 14 No descuides el don que hay en ti, que te fue dado por profecía cuando el grupo de ancianos te impuso las manos. 15 Ocúpate en estas cosas; entrégate por completo a ellas, para que todos vean tu progreso. 16 Ten cuidado de ti mismo y de la enseñanza. Persevera en estas cosas, porque al hacerlo te salvarás a ti mismo y también a los que te escuchan.
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Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Timothy 3:1–9; 2 Peter 2:1; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Jude 18; 2 Thessalonians 2:3–12
- 2 Ephesians 4:19; Romans 16:18; Acts 20:30; Romans 1:28; Matthew 24:24
- 3 Hebrews 13:4; 1 Timothy 4:4; Romans 14:6; Colossians 2:16; 1 Corinthians 10:30–31
- 4 Romans 14:20; 1 Corinthians 10:25; Romans 14:14; 1 Corinthians 10:23; Acts 21:25
- 5 1 Timothy 4:3; Luke 4:4; 1 Corinthians 7:14; Titus 1:15; Luke 11:41
- 6 Titus 2:7–10; Colossians 3:16; 2 Peter 3:1–2; Colossians 4:7; Matthew 13:52
- 7 2 Timothy 2:16; Titus 2:12; 1 Timothy 1:4; 2 Peter 1:5–8; Titus 3:9
- 8 Matthew 6:33; 1 Timothy 6:6; Psalm 37:3–4; Proverbs 19:23; Proverbs 22:4
- 9 1 Timothy 1:15
- 10 1 Timothy 2:4; 1 John 2:2; John 1:29; 1 John 4:14; 1 Timothy 2:6
- 11 1 Timothy 6:2; 2 Timothy 4:2; Titus 2:15; 1 Timothy 5:7; Titus 3:8
- 12 Titus 2:7; 2 Timothy 2:22; 2 Timothy 2:15; 1 Peter 5:3; 2 Peter 1:5–8
- 13 Acts 6:4; Titus 2:15; 2 Timothy 4:2; 1 Timothy 4:16; Acts 17:11
- 14 2 Timothy 1:6; 1 Peter 4:9–11; 1 Timothy 1:18; Acts 6:6; 1 Timothy 5:22
- 15 Matthew 5:16; Psalm 143:5; Philippians 2:15–16; Psalm 104:34; Psalm 119:48
- 16 Titus 1:9; Titus 2:7; 2 John 8–9; 1 Corinthians 3:10–11; Ezekiel 33:7–9
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
As those who adhere to the faith are fixed on a safe anchor, so those who fall from the faith can nowhere rest; but after many wanderings to and fro, they are borne at last into the very gulf of perdition.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
Thou hast taught me, good Father, that "unto the pure all things are pure;" but "it is evil for that man who eateth with offence;" "and that every creature of Thine is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with, thanksgiving;" and that "meat commendeth us not to God;" and that no man should "judge us in …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
… neither condemn the men as sinners, nor abhor the flesh as strange food; for the Apostle knows some of this sort, when he says: forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
In the First Epistle to Timothy do we not read: "These things command and teach?" What these things are, has been told previously.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
And that the Holy Ghost subsists, and lives, and speaks, and foretells, I have often said in what goes before, and Paul writes it plainly to Timothy: Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in later times some shall depart from the faith,--which we see in the divisions not only of former times but also of our own; so motley …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)