15Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.
16But take no part in wrong and foolish talk, for those who do so will go farther into evil,
17And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
18Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.
19But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
20Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.
21If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.
