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7 ) But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.
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8 ) For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
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9 ) This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
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10 ) For 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.
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11 ) These things command and teach.
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12 ) Let no man despise your youth, but be you an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
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13 ) Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
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14 ) Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
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15 ) Meditate upon these things, give yourself wholly to them, that your profiting may appear to all.
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16 ) Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine, continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.