² And those who have believing masters should not be disrespectful toward them because they are brothers. Instead, they should serve them even better, because those who benefit from their good service are believers and dear to them.

False Teachers and Their Greed

Teach and urge these things. ³ If anyone teaches different doctrines and does not devote himself to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, ⁴ he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has a morbid craving for controversies and battles over words, things that produce envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, ⁵ and constant frictions among people whose minds are depraved, who have lost hold of the truth, imagining that their godliness is a means of financial gain. Separate yourselves from such people.^[a]