Do ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things beforehand, beware lest, being led away with the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.

Spoil

Let no one defraud you of the prize, desiring to do it in humiliation and worshipping of the angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, puffed up without reason by the mind of his own flesh,

But I exhort your brethren, to mark those who are causing divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye learned; and avoid them.

Let no one deceive you with vain words; for because of these things the wrath of God cometh upon the sons of disobedience.

Be not carried aside with various and strange teachings; for it is good that the heart be established with grace, not with meats, in which those who walked were not profited.

Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which ye wrought, but receive a full reward.

Philosophy

And some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, What doth this babbler mean to say? and others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of foreign gods; because he brought the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection.

Because though they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful to him; but became perverse in their reasonings, and their senseless minds were darkened;

For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nought the discernment of the discerning."

Let no one deceive himself; if any one thinketh himself wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

But some one will say, How are the dead to rise? and with what body do they come?

casting down reasonings, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every purpose into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

and their word will eat as doth a canker; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

But evil men and impostors will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

After the tradition

(which all are to perish with the using,) after the commandments and teachings of men;

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

(for the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, do not eat, holding fast the tradition of the elders;

and made progress in Judaism beyond many of the same age with me in my nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

knowing that not with perishable things, silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers,

The rudiments

If ye died with Christ to the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances, such as,

So also we, when we were children, were in bondage under the rudiments of the world;

in which ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience;

After christ

But not so did ye learn Christ,

General references

But a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him; because they know not the voice of strangers.