For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value for all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
      3. To confirm his doctrine by a good example: Be thou an example of the believers, c. Observe, Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their live, else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other: they must be examples both in word and conversation. Their discourse must be edifying, and this will be a good example: their conversation must be strict, and this will be a good example: they must be examples in charity, or love to God and all good men, examples in spirit, that is, in spiritual-mindedness, in spiritual worship,--in faith, that is, in the profession of Christian faith,--and in purity or chastity.