002:008 Never forget that Jesus Christ has risen from among the dead and is a descendant of David, as is declared in the Good News which I preach.
002:009 For preaching the Good News I suffer, and am even put in chains, as if I were a criminal: yet the word of God is not imprisoned.
002:010 For this reason I endure all things for the sake of God's own people; so that they also may obtain salvation—even the salvation which is in Christ Jesus—and with it eternal glory.
002:011 Faithful is the saying: "If we died with Him, we shall
also live with Him;
002:012 "If we patiently endure pain, we shall also share His Kingship; "If we
disown Him, He will also disown us;
002:013 "And even if *our* faith fails, He remains true—He cannot
prove false to Himself."
002:014 Bring all this to men's remembrances, solemnly charging them in the presence of God not to waste time in wrangling about mere words, a course which is altogether unprofitable and tends only to the ruin of the hearers.
002:015 Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.
002:016 But from irreligious and frivolous talk hold aloof, for those
who indulge in it will proceed from bad to worse in impiety,
002:017 and their teaching will spread like a running sore.
Hymenaeus and Philetus are men of that stamp.