But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

and are advocating ¹  customs that are not lawful for us to accept ²  or practice, ³  since we are ⁴  Romans.”

and their message will spread its infection ¹  like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group. ² 

You be on guard against him ¹  too, because he vehemently opposed our words.

They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. ¹  I tried over and over again ²  to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction. ³ 

For there will be a time when people ¹  will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, ²  they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. ³ 

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, ¹  cried out, ²  “You both know me and know where I come from! ³  And I have not come on my own initiative, ⁴  but the one who sent me ⁵  is true. You do not know him, ⁶ 

Listen to the Lord’s word, you leaders of Sodom! ¹  Pay attention to our God’s rebuke, ²  people of Gomorrah!

He will not grow dim or be crushed ¹  before establishing justice on the earth; the coastlands ²  will wait in anticipation for his decrees.” ³ 

The person who does not love me does not obey ¹  my words. And the word ²  you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

As I urged you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus ¹  to instruct ²  certain people not to spread false teachings, ³ 

Listen to my instruction ¹  so that you may be wise, ²  and do not neglect it.

Then ¹  he began to teach ²  them by saying:

So ¹  he continued to preach in the synagogues of Judea. ² 

So ¹  we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes. ² 

But you did not learn about Christ like this,

And this is what we intend to do, ¹  if God permits.

The Lord wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it. ¹ 

She ¹  had a sister named Mary, who sat ²  at the Lord’s feet ³  and listened to what he said.

Even from among your own group ¹  men ²  will arise, teaching perversions of the truth ³  to draw the disciples away after them.