from which certain ones deviating turned aside to empty talking,
What does it seem to you? If there be to any man a hundred sheep, and one of them strays away, will he not leave the ninety nine on the mountains, and having gone he seeks the one having strayed?
For some already have turned aside behind Satan.
who deviated concerning the truth, saying the resurrection already has come, and overturn the faith of some.
For Demas deserted me, loving the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
For there are indeed many insubordinate men, empty talkers and mind-deluders, especially the ones of the circumcision,
But keep back from foolish questionings and genealogies and arguments and quarrels of law, for they are unprofitable and vain.