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# 1 Timothy 4

1 Timothy 4 is chapter 4 of 6 in the First Letter to Timothy. Here are all 16 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He warns him against heretics, and exhorts him to the exercise of piety.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Timothy 4 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Now the Spirit has clearly said that, in the end times, some persons will depart from the faith, paying attention to spirits of error and the doctrines of devils,
2. speaking lies in hypocrisy, and having their consciences seared,
3. prohibiting marriage, abstaining from foods, which God has created to be accepted with thanksgiving by the faithful and by those who have understood the truth.
4. For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected which is received with thanksgiving;
5. for it has been sanctified by the Word of God and by prayer.
6. By proposing these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished by words of faith, and by the good doctrine that you have secured.
7. But avoid the silly fables of old women. And exercise yourself so as to advance in piety.
8. For the exercise of the body is somewhat useful. But piety is useful in all things, holding the promise of life, in the present and in the future.
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.

## 1 Timothy 4 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Spiritus autem manifeste dicit, quia in novissimis temporibus discedent quidam a fide, attendentes spiritibus erroris, et doctrinis dæmoniorum,
2. in hypocrisi loquentium mendacium, et cauteriatam habentium suam conscientiam,
3. prohibentium nubere, abstinere a cibis, quod Deus creavit ad percipiendum cum gratiarum actione fidelibus, et iis qui cognoverunt veritatem.
4. Quia omnis creatura Dei bona est, et nihil rejiciendum quod cum gratiarum actione percipitur:
5. sanctificatur enim per verbum Dei, et orationem.
6. Hæc proponens fratribus, bonus eris minister Christi Jesu enutritus verbis fidei, et bonæ doctrinæ, quam assecutus es.
7. Ineptas autem, et aniles fabulas devita: exerce autem teipsum ad pietatem.
8. Nam corporalis exercitatio, ad modicum utilis est: pietas autem ad omnia utilis est, promissionem habens vitæ, quæ nunc est, et futuræ.
9. Fidelis sermo, et omni acceptione dignus.
10. In hoc enim laboramus, et maledicimur, quia speramus in Deum vivum, qui est Salvator omnium hominum, maxime fidelium.
11. Præcipe hæc, et doce.
12. Nemo adolescentiam tuam contemnat: sed exemplum esto fidelium in verbo, in conversatione, in caritate, in fide, in castitate.
13. Dum venio, attende lectioni, exhortationi, et doctrinæ.
14. Noli negligere gratiam, quæ in te est, quæ data est tibi per prophetiam, cum impositione manuum presbyterii.
15. Hæc meditare, in his esto: ut profectus tuus manifestus sit omnibus.
16. Attende tibi, et doctrinæ: insta in illis. Hoc enim faciens, et teipsum salvum facies, et eos qui te audiunt.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 672: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2518: Purification of the Heart ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1556: The Three Degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing but live otherwise.” — St. Charles Borromeo, Address to his clergy, 1584 (On this theme: verse 12)
- “Are you in charge of a parish? If so, do not neglect the parish of your own soul.” — St. Charles Borromeo, Address at his last synod, 1584 (On this theme: verse 16)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 3: He speaks of the Gnostics, the Marcionites, the Eneratites, the Manicheans, and other ancient heretics, who absolutely condemned marriage, and the use of all kind of meat; because they pretended that all flesh was from an evil principle. Whereas the church of God, so far from condemning marriage, holds it a holy sacrament; and forbids it to none but such as by vow have chosen the better part: and prohibits not the use of any meats whatsoever in proper times and seasons; though she does not judge all kind of diet proper for days of fasting and penance.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Sep 16, 2027 (computed): Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and St. Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs — First Reading, 1 Timothy 4:12-16

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).