²⁵ But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

⁹ And the great dragon was forced down, the old snake, who is named the Evil One and Satan, by whom all the earth is turned from the right way; he was forced down to the earth, and his angels were forced down with him.

¹ But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

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;

⁴ And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

³⁰ And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.

³¹ So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

¹⁴ And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.

²⁰ But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.

³ For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

⁴ And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

⁵ But be self-controlled in all things, do without comfort, go on preaching the good news, completing the work which has been given you to do.

¹³ For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

¹⁴ And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.

⁵ Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep.

³⁹ And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.

⁹ All you beasts of the field, come together for your meat, even all you beasts of the wood.

¹⁰ His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.