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21 I write to you, not because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and you know that no lie comes from the truth.

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12 Therefore I intend to keep on reminding you of these things, though you know them already and are established in the truth that has come to you.(A)

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Judgment on False Teachers

Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved[a] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 5 Other ancient authorities read informed, that the Lord who once and for all saved

Paul’s Reason for Writing So Boldly

14 I myself feel confident about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.(A) 15 Nevertheless, on some points I have written to you rather boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God(B)

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Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you;
    rebuke the wise, and he will love you.(A)
Give instruction[a] to the wise, and they will become wiser still;
    teach the righteous, and they will gain in learning.(B)

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  1. 9.9 Heb lacks instruction

let the wise, too, hear and gain in learning
    and the discerning acquire skill,(A)

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