¹⁰ If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take them into your house or welcome them.^(A)

¹⁰ Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them.^(A)

¹⁷ I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned.^(A) Keep away from them.^{(B) 18} For such people are not serving our Lord Christ,^(C) but their own appetites.^(D) By smooth talk and flattery they deceive^(E) the minds of naive people.

¹⁴ Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them,^(A) in order that they may feel ashamed.^(B)

Warning Against Idleness

⁶ In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,^(A) we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from^(B) every believer who is idle and disruptive^(C) and does not live according to the teaching^[a] you received from us.^(D)

⁵ having a form of godliness^(A) but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.^(B)

⁶ They are the kind who worm their way^(C) into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires,

¹¹ But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister^[a](A) but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater^(B) or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.^(C)

⁸ But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you,^(A) let them be under God’s curse!^{(B) 9} As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted,^(C) let them be under God’s curse!

¹¹ Anyone who welcomes them shares^(A) in their wicked work.