For (A)of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able (B)to come to the knowledge of the truth. (C)Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: (D)men of corrupt minds, (E)disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, (F)as theirs also was.

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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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