from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to futile talk,

But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God.

Thus every good tree produces good fruit, but a rotten tree produces evil fruit.

Every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

"Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten; for a tree is known by its fruit.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

who, having become callous, gave themselves over to debauchery, for the working of uncleanness with utmost greediness.

And then the lawless one will be unveiled, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth, and will destroy by the brightness of His coming,

and in all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And in just the way Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, thus also these resist the truth: men corrupted in mind, disapproved regarding the faith.

All things indeed are pure to the pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience have been defiled.

They profess to know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

Take heed, brothers, lest there be in anyone of you a wicked heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

but encourage yourselves every day, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Look to yourselves, lest we should lose those things for which we worked, but that we should receive a full reward.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house, and do not greet him;

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

not given to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not loving money;

Likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not being given to much wine, not greedy for money,

And Gehazi the servant of Elisha said, Behold, my Lord has spared this Syrian Naaman, so as not to take of his hand what he has brought; as the Lord lives, I will surely run after him, and take something from him.

And [Gehazi] said, All is well: my master has sent me, saying, Behold, now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from Mount Ephraim; please give them a talent of silver, and two changes of clothes.

And he came to a secret place, and took them from their hands, and laid them up in the house, and dismissed the men.

From where [have you come], Gehazi? And Gehazi said, Your servant has not been anywhere. And Elisha said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man returned from his chariot to meet you? And now you have received silver, and now you have received clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, menservants, and maidservants.

Yea, they are insatiable dogs, that know not what it is to be filled, and they are wicked, having no understanding; all have followed their own ways, each according to his [will].

For from the least of them even to the greatest they have all committed iniquity; from the priest even to the false prophet they have all dealt falsely.

Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to [new] inheritors; and they shall gather their fruits, says the Lord.

They approach you as a people that come together, and sit before you, and hear your words, but they will not do them; for [there is] falsehood in their mouth, and their heart [goes] after their pollutions.

And He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.'"

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Now when Simon observed that by the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money,

But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought to acquire the gift of God through money!

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, providing no little trade [for] the craftsmen,

And you observe and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost in all of Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away a great multitude, saying that they are not gods which are made by human hands.

And hearing, and becoming full of anger, they were crying out saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

whom it is necessary to shut [their] mouths, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

And by covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction will not sleep.

They have left behind the straight way and gone astray, having followed after the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, and in the error of Balaam they have rushed for profit, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the wealth of her luxury."

and cinnamon and incense, perfume and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and bodies and souls of men.

Now I urge you, brothers, to look out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For such [people] do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother living in idleness, and not according the tradition which they received from us.

having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from these people turn away!