Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up with reminders,

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:

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,

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

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.

I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you keep watch over these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.

I charge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will proceed to more ungodliness.

But avoid foolish and unlearned questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful thoughts.

nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.

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

he is proud, understanding nothing, but is sick with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, slander, evil conjecture,

useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From such withdraw yourself.

But avoid foolish questionings, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the Law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

knowing that such a person is corrupt and sinning, being self-condemned.

And do not turn aside to go after vanities which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are nothing.

The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me; the shepherds also rebelled against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Has a nation changed their gods, which are not gods? But My people have changed their Glory for that which does not profit.

Behold, you trust in lying words that are of no benefit.

O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Jehovah says, Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams and tell them, and cause My people to go astray by their lies and by their foolishness. Yet I did not send them nor command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says Jehovah.

What does an image profit, that its maker should carve it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood, that the maker should trust in his work, to make mute idols?

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

For bodily exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

And you shall mention the burden of Jehovah no more. For every man's word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the Words of the living God, of Jehovah of Hosts our God.

and said, O full of all deceit and all mischief, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord?

Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, You must be circumcised and keep the Law; to whom we gave no such commandment;

which is not another; but there are some who trouble you, even determined to pervert the gospel of Christ.

knowing that such a person is corrupt and sinning, being self-condemned.