avoidance

¹⁰Avoid a man who is a heretic, after the first and second correction,

¹⁷But I beg you, brothers, to take note of those who cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and to turn away from them.

⁸Be cautious for yourselves, lest you lose what you have accomplished, and so that, instead, you may receive a full reward.

²⁷Peace I leave for you; my Peace I give to you. Not in the way that the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, and let it not fear.

¹⁵Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷And the world is passing away, with its desire. But whoever does the will of God abides unto eternity.

⁵even having the appearance of piety while rejecting its virtue. And so, avoid them.

³If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is in accord with piety, ⁴then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions: ⁵the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

¹⁶for it is written: “You shall be holy, for I am Holy.”

¹⁴But if anyone does not obey our word by this epistle, take note of him and do not keep company with him, so that he may be ashamed.

²⁸Take care of yourselves and of the entire flock, over which the Holy Spirit has stationed you as Bishops to rule the Church of God, which he has purchased by his own blood. ²⁹I know that after my departure ravenous wolves will enter among you, not sparing the flock. ³⁰And from among yourselves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things in order to entice disciples after them. ³¹Because of this, be vigilant, retaining in memory that throughout three years I did not cease, night and day, with tears, to admonish each and every one of you.

¹⁰If anyone comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not be willing to receive him into the house, and do not speak a greeting to him.