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6These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.” 7They get exploited every time and never really learn. 8These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. 9But nothing will come of these latest impostors. Everyone will see through them, just as people saw through that Egyptian hoax.

10You've been a good apprentice to me, a part of my teaching, my manner of life, direction, faith, steadiness, love, patience, 11troubles, sufferings-suffering along with me in all the grief I had to put up with in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. And you also well know that God rescued me! 12Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble; there's no getting around it. 13Unscrupulous con men will continue to exploit the faith. They're as deceived as the people they lead astray. As long as they are out there, things can only get worse.

14But don't let it faze you. Stick with what you learned and believed, sure of the integrity of your teachers-15why, you took in the sacred Scriptures with your mother's milk! There's nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.