¹³ For this reason we also constantly ^(A)thank God that when you received the ^(B)word of God which you heard from us, you accepted it ^(C)not as the word of mere men, but as what it really is, the word of God, ^(D)which also is at work in you who believe.

¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them of ^(A)these things, ^(B)in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and ^(C)unstable distort, as they do also ^(D)the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. ¹⁷ You therefore, ^(E)beloved, knowing this beforehand, ^(F)be on your guard so that you are not carried away by ^(G)the error of ^[a](H)unscrupulous people and ^(I)lose your own ^[b]firm commitment,