¹¹ For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter.

¹⁵ Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved by him, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly explaining the word of truth.

²¹ In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels, I warn you to keep these instructions without prejudice, doing nothing on the basis of partiality.^{(A) 22} Do not ordain^[a] anyone hastily, and do not participate in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.^(B)

¹⁸ The one who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and has human approval.^(A)

⁷ and not only by his arrival but also by the consolation with which he was consoled about you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

¹⁹ I reprove and discipline those whom I love. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.^(A)

²³ save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.^[a](A)

² Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation^(A)—

¹⁷ If you invoke as Father the one who judges impartially according to each person’s work, live in fear during the time of your exile.^(A)