I know your works, your toil, and your perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil people, and have tested those who call themselves apostles but are not, and found them false.
They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left, so that they might reveal that none of them belong to us.
For the time will come when people won’t put up with sound doctrine, but instead they will accumulate teachers who tickle their ears with what they desire.
Therefore, y’all should listen carefully. For whoever has will be given more, and whoever doesn’t have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”