Catholic Public Domain Version

1 Timothy 4:9-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

9. This is a faithful saying and worthy of full acceptance.

10. For this reason we labor and are maligned: because we hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, most especially of the faithful.

11. Instruct and teach these things.

12. Let no one despise your youth, but be an example among the faithful in word, in behavior, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

13. Until I arrive, attend to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine.

14. Do not be willing to neglect the grace that is within you, which was given to you through prophecy, with the imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

15. Meditate on these things, so that your progress may be manifest to all.

16. Pay attention to yourself and to doctrine. Pursue these things. For in doing so, you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.