Provide yourself with an outline of the sound teaching which you have heard from my lips, and be true to the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

Of this you are aware, that all the Christians in Roman Asia have deserted me: and among them Phygelus and Hermogenes.

and their teaching will spread like a running sore. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men of that stamp.

In the matter of the truth they have gone astray, saying that the Resurrection is already past, and so they are overthrowing the faith of some.

Now in a great house there are not only articles of gold and silver, but also others of wood and of earthenware; and some are for specially honourable, and others for common use.

and recover sober-mindedness and freedom from the Devil's snare, though they are now entrapped by him to do his will.

Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,

and are always learning something new, and yet are never able to arrive at real knowledge of the truth.

And just as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also these false teachers withstand the truth--being, as they are, men of debased intellects, and of no real worth so far as faith is concerned.

and that from infancy you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise to obtain salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.