15. Do your best to win God's approval as a worker who doesn't need to be ashamed and who teaches only the true message.
16. Keep away from worthless and useless talk. It only leads people further away from God.
17. That sort of talk is like a sore that won't heal. And Hymenaeus and Philetus have been talking this way
18. by teaching that the dead have already been raised to life. This is far from the truth, and it is destroying the faith of some people.
19. But the foundation that God has laid is solid. On it is written, “The Lord knows who his people are. So everyone who worships the Lord must turn away from evil.”