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17 Their evil teaching will spread like a sickness inside the body. Hymenaeus and Philetus are like that. 18 They have left the true teaching, saying that the rising from the dead has already taken place, and so they are destroying the faith of some people. 19 But God’s strong foundation continues to stand. These words are written on the seal: “The Lord knows those who belong to him,”[a] and “Everyone who wants to belong to the Lord must stop doing wrong.”

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Footnotes

  1. 2:19 “The Lord . . . him.” Quotation from Numbers 16:5.

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