⁵ and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'

⁵ They -- of the world they are; because of this from the world they speak, and the world doth hear them;

⁶ we -- of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

² I have known thy works, and thy labour, and thy endurance, and that thou art not able to bear evil ones, and that thou hast tried those saying themselves to be apostles and are not, and hast found them liars,

²¹ I did not write to you because ye have not known the truth, but because ye have known it, and because no lie is of the truth.

¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but -- that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.

¹ Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

³ if so be ye did taste that the Lord `is' gracious,

³ for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,

⁵ having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

⁶ for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

⁷ always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

⁶ as, then, ye did receive Christ Jesus the Lord, in him walk ye,

⁷ being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught -- abounding in it in thanksgiving.

⁸ See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

⁹ because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,

¹⁰ and ye are in him made full, who is the head of all principality and authority,

¹¹ and He gave some `as' apostles, and some `as' prophets, and some `as' proclaimers of good news, and some `as' shepherds and teachers,

¹² unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

¹³ till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

¹⁴ that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

¹⁵ and, being true in love, we may increase to Him `in' all things, who is the head -- the Christ;

²⁴ And he said to them, `Take heed what ye hear; in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you; and to you who hear it shall be added;

²⁷ Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

⁷ And Jehoshaphat saith, `Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah besides, and we seek by him?'

¹⁸ `See, therefore, how ye hear, for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever may not have, also what he seemeth to have, shall be taken from him.'