This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.

Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

and what they say will spread everywhere like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that.

who have deviated from the truth. They claim that the resurrection has already taken place, and they undermine the faith of some.

But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

He must correct those who are in opposition with courtesy and gentleness in the hope that God may grant that they will repent and be led to the knowledge of the truth [accurately understanding and welcoming it],

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane,

[and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good,

traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of [sensual] pleasure rather than lovers of God,

holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith]. Avoid such people and keep far away from them.

For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Just as Jannes and Jambres [the court magicians of Egypt] opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, unqualified and worthless [as teachers] in regard to the faith.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse as they deceive others and are themselves deceived.

You, however, must stand by what you learnt and accepted as true. You know who they were from whom you learnt it;

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

At my first defense, no one came to my [aid], but [they] all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.