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)

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.

3 Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord.

Breaking with the Past

To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, and for you it is a source of steadfastness.

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)

⁷ rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.^(A)

Judgment on False Teachers

⁵ 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)

² because of the truth that abides in us and will be with us forever:

¹³ I think it right, as long as I am in this body,^[a] to refresh your memory,^(A)

Warnings and Exhortations

¹⁷ But you, beloved, must remember the words previously spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Occasion of the Letter

³ Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once and for all handed on to the saints.^(A)