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. ¹⁸ They have left the true teaching. They say that the rising from death of all men has already taken place. And those two men are destroying the faith of some people.