For that reason I am ready to submit to anything for the sake of those whom God has chosen, so that they too may gain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.

Leave worldly, empty phrases alone, for they lead people deeper and deeper into godlessness,

Avoid foolish, crude speculations; you know they only lead to quarrels,

and they may yet return to their senses and escape from the toils of the devil, who has caught them to make them do his will.

They are the kind of men who make their way into people's houses and make captives of poor, weak women, loaded down with their sins and under the control of all sorts of impulses,

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, these people in turn oppose the truth; they are men of depraved minds and counterfeit faith.

But they will not make much progress, for everyone will perceive their folly, just as they did that of those others.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

and they will turn from listening to the truth and wander off after fictions.