¹ tn Or “unprincipled.”

² sn These unprincipled men. The same word is used in 2:7, suggesting further that the heretics in view in chapter 3 are the false teachers of chapter 2.

¹ tn Heb “a witness who is worthless and wicked” (עֵד בְּלִיַּעַל, ʿed b^eliyyaʿal). Cf. KJV “an ungodly witness”; NAB “an unprincipled witness”; NCV “an evil witness”; NASB “a rascally witness.”