²¹ I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

¹² Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

⁸ Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

⁹ Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

⁵ Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn't believe.

⁵ That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

¹⁴ I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."}, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

¹⁵ But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,