My beloved, as I was strongly bent upon writing to you of our common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you at present, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith, which was once delivered to the saints.

As for these, they inveigh against what they do not understand: and abuse those natural instincts which regulate brute animals.

As for you, my beloved, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ have formerly told you.

of others be compassionately tender, snatching them, as it were, out of the fire: and avoid even the garment of the infected.