Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words, useful for nothing, for the ruin of the hearers.

But reject profane and old wives' tales, and exercise yourself unto godliness.

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,"

not giving heed to Jewish myths and to commands of men turning away from the truth.

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

But evil men and impostors shall advance worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

And Ezrah the priest arose, and said to them, You have broken covenant, and have taken strange wives, to add to the trespass of Israel.

But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day. He has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch?

Do not be deceived: "Evil associations corrupts good habits."

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains [will continue] until one arises from out of [the] midst.

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,

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

looking diligently lest anyone fall from the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness growing up cause trouble, and through this many be defiled;

And many will follow after their debaucheries, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

For when they speak haughty [words] of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

And one of his heads [was] as if it had been slain to death, and his wound of death was healed. And the whole world marveled after the Beast.

And he deceives my own [people] who dwell on the earth by the signs which were given to him to do before the Beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who had the wound--and came to life!-from the sword.