²⁰ Timothy, guard what has been entrusted^(A) to your care. Turn away from godless chatter^(B) and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,

⁸ See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,^(A) which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces^[a] of this world^(B) rather than on Christ.

¹⁶ Avoid godless chatter,^(A) because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

¹² That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame,^(A) because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard^(B) what I have entrusted to him until that day.^(C)

¹³ What you heard from me,^(D) keep^(E) as the pattern^(F) of sound teaching,^(G) with faith and love in Christ Jesus.^{(H) 14} Guard^(I) the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.^(J)

¹⁸ Do not let anyone who delights in false humility^(A) and the worship of angels disqualify you.^(B) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.