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But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

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Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron

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Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

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Because everything which God has made is good, and nothing is evil, if it is taken with praise:

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For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.