The Skeptics Annotated Bible (955 page)

(3.16)
“God was manifest in the flesh.”
349 Is Jesus God?

(4.1-3) “In the latter times” people won’t get married or eat meat.
13 What should we eat?
15 Is marriage a good thing?

4
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that
in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils
;

(4.1)
“In the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.”

2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

3
Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats,
which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

(4.3) “Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats.”

4 For
every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused
, if it be received with thanksgiving:

(4.4) “Every creature of God is good [to eat], and nothing to be refused.”

5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

7 But
refuse
profane and
old wives’ fables
, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

(4.7) “Refuse … old wives’ fables.” What about old husbands’ fables? Old Bible fables?

8 For
bodily exercise profiteth little
: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

(4.8)
“Bodily exercise profiteth little.”

9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

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.

(4.10) “The living God, who is The Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.” “The living God” is the saviour of “all men”—especially (but not exclusively) of those that believe. So even nonbelievers will be saved.
157 Does hell exist?

11 These things command and teach.

12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

15 Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

5
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

(5.3-10)
Honoring widows indeed
You should help a widow only if she: has no children or nephews; is desolate, trusts in God, and prays all the time; is not living in pleasure (a widow living in pleasure is the living dead); is over 60 years old; had only one husband; has raised children; has lodged strangers; has washed the saints’ feet; has relieved the afflicted; and has diligently followed every good work.

3
Honour widows that are widows indeed.

(5.3)
“Honour widows that are widows indeed.”

4
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents
: for that is good and acceptable before God.

(5.4)
“But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents.”

5
Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day
.

(5.5)
“Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.”

6
But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth
.