Because of this I endure all things because of the chosen, so that they also may experience salvation in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

But shun profane babblings, for they will advance to greater impiety,

men who missed the mark about the truth, saying the resurrection happened already, and they overthrow the faith of some.

But shun foolish and uneducated questions, knowing that they breed quarrels.

and they may sober up out of the snare of the devil, having been captured by him for his will.

But they will not advance in much more, for their folly will be evident to all men, as also that of those men came to be.

For there will be time when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but they will accumulate teachers to themselves according to their own desires, who tickle the ear,