Tune: Ach Gott Und Herr
(\'Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands\')
1 Timothy 4 v.11-16
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Paul says to Timothy, Let none
Despise you, let work be done
Be example to believers
That there be no deceivers
An example in conduct, word
Your way of life be seen, heard
In love, true in spirit, so be
In faith, and in purity
Attend to reading, exhorting
Encouraging each good thing
Wise teaching, and not neglecting
The gift in you professing
The gift given by prophecy
When elders laid hands, so be
On you, meditate, meletao*
Aligned in the Spirit\'s flow
Give yourself wholly to these things
Thus your life profiting brings
To you and to all, take heed to
Yourself, and the teaching too
Continue in them, for doing
So you shall salvation bring
To yourself and to them that hear
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* meletao (mel-le-toe) = Greek for \'meditate\'.