Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

who have gone astray from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and upset the faith of some.

Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know that they produce quarrels.

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires,