⁹ The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away.

³ You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?

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

⁵ For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.

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.

⁸ For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;

³ For if a man has an idea that he is something when he is nothing, he is tricked by himself.

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

³ Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.