which some, by professing [expertise], missed the mark concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

who have strayed concerning the truth, asserting that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some.

For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and traveled to Thessalonica--Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

For already some have turned aside after Satan.

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but [is] morbidly concerned with disputes and word battles, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

constant wranglings of men of corrupt minds and having been deprived of the truth, supposing that godliness is a means of profit. Withdraw from such [people].

O Timothy! Guard that which was committed to your trust, turning away from the profane and empty babblings and opposing views of what is falsely called "knowledge,"

But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they bring forth fights.

And a servant of the Lord ought not to fight, but to be gentle to all, skillful at teaching, forbearing,

For there are also many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

But avoid foolish disputes and genealogies, and strifes and legal fights; for they are unprofitable and futile.