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forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.
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Now the Spirit expressly declares that in later times some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons;
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through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely and have their own consciences seared as with a hot iron;
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forbidding people to marry, and insisting on abstinence from foods which God has created to be partaken of, with thankfulness, by those who believe and have a clear knowledge of the truth.
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For everything that God has created is good, and nothing is to be cast aside, if only it is received with thanksgiving.
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For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.
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