2 Timothy 2:17-19

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁷ It causes people to become sick in their spirits. More and more people become sick as a result. Hymenaeus and Philetus are two of the people who teach that kind of false message. ¹⁸ They no longer teach God's true message. They say that God will not raise dead people any more, because he has already given life to dead people. In this way they have confused the minds of some people, so that they no longer believe in Christ.

¹⁹ But the group of true believers remains strong, like the foundation under a building. God has written his message there. It says, ‘The Lord knows who his own people are.’^[a] It also says, ‘Everyone who says that he belongs to the Lord must stop doing bad things.’