⁸ When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked.

⁴ Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume?

²⁰ Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!^(A)

¹¹ Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad^(A)—in order that God’s purpose^(B) in election might stand:

⁹ Those who want to get rich^(A) fall into temptation and a trap^(B) and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 But there were also false prophets^(A) among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you.^(B) They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord^(C) who bought them^(D)—bringing swift destruction on themselves.