Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say, “There is no resurrection of the dead”?

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

If anyone has caused pain, he has caused pain not so much to me but to some degree—not to exaggerate—to all of you.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some, letters of recommendation to you or from you?

For if I boast some more about our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for tearing you down, I am not ashamed.

For we don’t dare classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But in measuring themselves by themselves and comparing themselves to themselves, they lack understanding.

not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to change the good news about the Messiah.

And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers,

To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and strife, but others out of good will.

For we hear that there are some among you who walk irresponsibly, not working at all, but interfering with the work of others.

Some have deviated from these and turned aside to fruitless discussion.

having faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and have suffered the shipwreck of their faith.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

For some have already turned away to follow Satan.

Some people’s sins are obvious, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others surface later.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

By professing it, some people have deviated from the faith.

Grace be with all of you.

They have deviated from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are overturning the faith of some.

Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver bowls, but also those of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable.

Since it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news did not enter because of disobedience,

not staying away from our worship meetings, as some habitually do, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

Women received their dead—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,

Don’t neglect to show hospitality, for by doing this some have welcomed angels as guests without knowing it.

In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the Christian message, they may be won over without a message by the way their wives live

The Lord does not delay His promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.

He speaks about these things in all his letters in which there are some matters that are hard to understand. The untaught and unstable twist them to their own destruction, as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

I was very glad to find some of your children walking in the truth, in keeping with a command we have received from the Father.

For I was very glad when some brothers came and testified to your faithfulness to the truth—how you are walking in the truth.

Have mercy on those who doubt;

Don’t be afraid of what you are about to suffer. Look, the Devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will have affliction for 10 days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

“Anyone who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. I will give the victor some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name is inscribed that no one knows except the one who receives it.