¹⁶ He speaks about these things in all his letters. There are some things hard to understand in them. The untaught and unstable will twist them to their own destruction,^(A) as they also do with the rest of the Scriptures.

¹⁸ For the Scripture says: Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,^[a](A) and, “The worker is worthy of his wages.”^(B)