Christ versus the Colossian Heresy

⁴ I am saying this so that no one will deceive you with arguments that sound reasonable. ⁵ For I may be absent in body, but I am with you in spirit,^(A) rejoicing to see how well ordered you are and the strength of your faith in Christ.

⁶ So then, just as you have received^(B) Christ Jesus as Lord,^(C) continue to walk in him, ⁷ being rooted and built up in him^(D) and established in the faith, just as you were taught,^(E) and overflowing with gratitude.

⁸ Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition,^(F) based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.^(G)

Guard the Heritage

²⁰ Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you,^(A) avoiding^(B) irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.^{(C) 21} By professing it, some^(D) people have departed from the faith.^(E)

Grace be with you all.

¹³ Evil people and impostors will become worse, deceiving^(A) and being deceived.

³ For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine,^(A) but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear. ⁴ They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.^(B)