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For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews

who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us. They displease God and are hostile to everyone,

by keeping us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are constantly filling up their sins to the limit, and wrath has overtaken them at last.

When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

They will pay the penalty of eternal destruction from the Lord’s presence and from his glorious strength

and with every wicked deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth and so be saved.

Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have delivered to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.

But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with good sense.

They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

and will therefore receive condemnation because they have renounced their original pledge.

At the same time, they also learn to be idle, going from house to house; they are not only idle, but are also gossips and busybodies, saying things they shouldn’t say.

Let those who have believing masters not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but serve them even better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved.

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

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, because you know that they breed quarrels.

Then they may come to their senses and escape the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

Just as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth. They are men who are corrupt in mind and worthless in regard to the faith.

But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be clear to all, as was the foolishness of Jannes and Jambres.

They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.

They claim to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,