For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,(A) always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.(B) Just as Jannes and Jambres(C) resisted Moses,(D) so these also resist the truth. They are men who are corrupt in mind(E) and worthless(F) in regard to the faith. But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be clear to all, as was the foolishness of Jannes and Jambres.

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For gar some of ek these houtos are eimi · ho creeping endynō into eis the ho homes oikia and kai capturing aichmalōtizō weak women gynaikarion who have been burdened sōreuō with sins hamartia, being led astray agō by various poikilos passions epithumia, always pantote learning manthanō and kai never mēdepote being able dynamai to come erchomai to eis a knowledge epignōsis of the truth alētheia. But de just as hos Jannes Iannēs and kai Jambres Iambrēs opposed anthistēmi Moses Mōysēs, so houtōs also kai these men houtos are opposing anthistēmi the ho truth alētheia, men anthrōpos who have been corrupted kataphtheirō in the ho mind nous, worthless adokimos concerning peri the ho faith pistis. But alla they will not ou progress prokoptō very epi far polys; · ho for gar their autos folly anoia will be eimi very clear ekdēlos to all pas, as hōs also kai was ginomai the ho folly of those ekeinos men .

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