from which some, having deviated, have turned aside to idle talk,

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

Even so, every good tree produces excellent fruit, but a corrupt tree produces evil fruit.

Every tree that does not produce excellent fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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

And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

But the one doing the truth comes to the Light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been worked in God.

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

who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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

and with all unrighteous deception among those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

But as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith;

To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and reprobate with regard to every good work.

Beware, brethren, that there not be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God;

but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, that not any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have produced, but that we may receive a full reward.

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor speak a blessing to him;

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for money, but fair-minded, not quarrelsome, not loving money;

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

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as Jehovah lives, I will run after him and take something from him.

And he said, All is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of garments.

And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and deposited them in the house; and he sent the men away, and they departed.

Then he said to him, Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?

Yea, they are greedy dogs which never have enough. And they are shepherds who cannot understand; they all look to their own way, every one for his own gain, to his own end.

For everyone from the least of them even to the greatest of them profits from unjust gain; and from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them, for everyone from the least even to the greatest profits from unjust gain. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they act out love, but their hearts go after their unjust gain.

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! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive more abundant condemnation.

And when Simon saw that through 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 that the gift of God could be purchased with money!

for a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no small profit to the craftsmen.

Moreover you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are not gods which are made with hands.

Now when they heard this, they were full of anger and cried out, saying, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!

whose mouths must be stopped, who overturn whole households, teaching things which they ought not, for the sake of dishonest gain.

By covetousness they will exploit you with well-turned words; whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction does not slumber.

They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

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

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual perversities, the kings of the earth have prostituted themselves with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the power of her luxury.

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

Now I exhort you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and snares, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of the simple.

But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the teaching which you received from us.

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