For this cause I also suffer these things; but I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard My deposit unto that Day.

Put them in memory of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words to no profit, to the subverting of the hearers.

Therefore if anyone purges himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honor, sanctified and useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these.

For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts,

But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith.