for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Laden

Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you.

Led

You know when you were pagans, how your impulses led you to dumb idols;

Now, beloved, you are forewarned: mind you are not carried away by the error of the lawless and so lose your proper footing;

Divers

but the worries of the world and the delight of being rich and all the other passions come in to choke the word; so it proves unfruitful.

Those who are eager to be rich get tempted and trapped in many senseless and pernicious propensities that drag men down to ruin and destruction.

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct ??19 promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life ??they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.

General references

they will not follow a stranger, they will run from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."