11 This teaching is true:If we died with him,then we will also live with him.
12 If we accept suffering,then we will also rule with him.If we say we don’t know him,then he will say he doesn’t know us.
13 If we are not faithful,he will still be faithful,because he must be true to who he is.
14 Continue teaching these things. And warn people before God not to argue about words. Arguing about words does not help anyone, and it ruins those who listen.
15 Do the best you can to be the kind of person that God will approve, and give yourself to him. Be a worker who is not ashamed of his work—a worker who uses the true teaching in the right way.
16 Stay away from those who talk about useless worldly things. That kind of talk will lead a person more and more away from God.
17 Their evil teaching will spread like a sickness inside the body. Hymenaeus and Philetus are men like that.