Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to argue with empty words to no good, to the destruction of the hearers.

But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself toward godliness.

O Timothy, guard what was committed to your trust, avoiding the profane and empty babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge;

not giving heed to Jewish myths and commandments of men that turn away from the truth.

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

But evil men and pretenders will grow worse and worse, leading astray and being led astray.

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, You have transgressed and have dwelt with foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind; all the day he multiplies lies and ruin. And they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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

Do not be led astray: Evil company corrupts good character.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He is now restraining, until it is raised 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 destroy with the brightness of His coming.

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

watching carefully that no one fall short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and through this many become defiled;

And many will follow their destructive ways, through whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, the ones who have actually escaped from those living in error.

And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled at the beast.

And he leads astray those who dwell on the earth by means of those signs which he was granted to do in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.