But there were indeed false prophets among the people of old, as there will be also among you false teachers, who will privately introduce pernicious heresies, denying even the Lord that bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction,

After

And if thy brother trespass against thee, go and expostulate with him alone; if he hearken to thee, thou hast gained thy brother:

I said before, and I again tell you beforehand, as if I were present the second time; and being absent I now write to those who have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare:

Reject

Now I exhort you, brethren, to mark those who cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned:

when ye are assembled together with my spirit, by the power, I say,

I wish they were even cut off from your communion, that make such disturbance amongst you.

Now we charge you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother who walketh disorderly, and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

having a form of godliness, but strangers to the power of it: from such turn away.

Now if any one come unto you, and bringeth not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, nor wish him success: for he,