For this reason I am bearing anything for the sake of His chosen people, so that they too may obtain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.

Continue shunning worldly, futile phrases, for they lead on to greater depths of godlessness,

Always avoid foolish discussions with ignorant men, for you know that they breed quarrels,

and they might recover their senses and escape from the devil's trap in which they have been caught by him to do his will.

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, these people resist the truth, for they are depraved in mind and so counterfeits in the faith.

But they will not make any more progress, for their folly will be evident to everybody, as theirs was.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,

and they will cease to listen to the truth and will turn to listen to myths.