¹⁵ and regard the ^(A)patience of our Lord as salvation; just as also ^(B)our beloved brother Paul, ^(C)according to the wisdom given him, wrote to you, ¹⁶ as also in all his letters, speaking in them of ^(D)these things, ^(E)in which there are some things that are hard to understand, which the untaught and ^(F)unstable distort, as they do also ^(G)the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

³ And He answered and said to them, “Why do you yourselves also break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

⁴ For certain people have ^(A)crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand ^[a](B)marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn ^(C)the grace of our God into ^(D)indecent behavior and ^(E)deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

⁴ Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you also were ^(A)put to death ^(B)in regard to the Law ^(C)through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.

³ For ^(A)the time will come when they will not tolerate ^(B)sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, ⁴ and they ^(C)will turn their ears away from the truth and ^(D)will turn aside to myths.