1 Timothy 4:12-14

4:12 Let no one look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in your speech, conduct, love, faithfulness, ¹  and purity. 4:13 Until I come, give attention to the public reading of scripture, ²  to exhortation, to teaching. 4:14 Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, ³  given to you and confirmed by prophetic words ⁴  when the elders laid hands on you. ⁵ 

[4:12]  ¹ tn Or “faith.”

[4:13]  ² tn Grk “reading.”

[4:14]  ³ tn Grk “in you.”

[4:14]  ⁴ tn Grk “which was given to you through prophecy.” Here as in 2:15 the preposition “through” denotes not “means” but accompanying circumstances: “accompanied by prophecy.”

[4:14]  ⁵ tn Grk “with the imposition of the hands of the presbytery” (i.e., the council of elders).