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Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

but she will be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

Some men's sins are evident, going before to judgment, and some men also they follow after.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

As a mantle you will roll them up. And they will be changed. But you are the same. Your years will not fail."

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, 'They always err in their heart, But they didn't know my ways;'

and in this place again, "They will not enter into my rest."

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

for they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that says of him, "The Lord swore and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever, According to the order of Melchizedek'".

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they didn't continue in my covenant, And I disregarded them," says the Lord.

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be to them a God, And they will be to me a people.