On account of this I endure all things for the sake of the elect, in order that they may also have the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Remember these things, testifying before God, that they shall not fight with words, profitable unto nothing, for the overturning of those who hear.

But reject the unsanctified empty talks: for they will proceed unto more of ungodliness,

who have made shipwreck concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already come, and they overturn the faith of some.

But reject foolish and undisciplinary questions, knowing that they gender strife.

and they may escape from the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him (the Lord's servant) according to his will.

But they shall proceed no further: for their insanity will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing;

and they will indeed turn their hearing from the truth, and be turned unto fables.