But if anyone is disposed to be contentious about it, I for my part recognize no other practice in worship than this, and neither do the churches of God.

Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching

But have nothing to do with foolish controversies, pedigrees, strife, and wrangles about the Law, for they are profitless and futile.

And do not

For God's anger is breaking forth from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth.

But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received,

It is true, they have not all accepted the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what we have told?"

For I will venture to speak only of what Christ has accomplished through me in winning the heathen to obedience, by word and action,

in a blaze of fire, and takes vengeance on the godless who will not listen to the good news of our Lord Jesus.

and when he was fully qualified, he became a source of unending salvation for all who obey him,

Faith enabled Abraham to obey when God summoned him to leave his home for a region which he was to have for his own, and to leave home without knowing where he was going.

You married women, in the same way, must be submissive to your husbands, so that any who refuse to believe the message may be won over without argument through the behavior of their wives

For the time has come for the judgment to begin with the household of God, and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who refuse God's good news?

But obey

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

and full of wicked deception for men who are going to destruction, because they refused to love the truth and be saved.

See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God,

Indignation

Then what if God, though he wanted to display his anger and show his power, has shown great patience toward the objects of his anger, already ripe for destruction,

but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies.

shall drink the wine of God's wrath, poured unmixed into the cup of his anger, and be tortured with fire and brimstone before the eyes of the holy angels and the Lamb.

The great city broke into three pieces, the cities of the heathen fell, and God remembered to give mighty Babylon the cup of the wine of his fierce anger.

General references

For everyone will have to carry his own load.