³³ Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

²⁰ Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

⁴ And Jesus said to them in answer, Take care that you are not tricked.

⁶ This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?

⁶ Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

⁷ Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

¹⁶ But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,

¹⁷ And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;

¹⁸ Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

⁶ Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

²⁴ For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.

¹⁵ Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

¹⁸ For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

¹⁹ Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

²⁰ For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.