If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

Make room for us in your hearts; we have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have exploited no one.

You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

But these men, like irrational animals – creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed – do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

because his judgments are true and just. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his servants poured out by her own hands!”