For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.

men who have gone astray from the truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and they upset the faith of some.

But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce quarrels.

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will.

holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,