for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;
immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine
Am I your enemy to-day, because I have been honest with you?
Woe to you when all men speak well of you! that is just what their fathers did to the false prophets.
It is because I tell the truth, that you do not believe me.
Thus when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come to proclaim to you God's secret purpose with any elaborate words or wisdom.
(For all the Athenians and the foreign visitors to Athens occupied themselves with nothing else than repeating or listening to the latest novelty.)
what I said, what I preached, did not rest on the plausible arguments of 'wisdom' but on the proof supplied by the Spirit and its power,
At that hour the scribes and high priests tried to lay hands on him, but they were afraid of the people. They knew he had meant this parable for them.
Model yourself on the sound instruction you have had from me in the faith and love of Christ Jesus.
they told you beforehand, "At the end of things there will be mockers who go by their own impious passions."