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as also in all his letters, speaking in them of thesethings, in which are somethingshard to understand, which the untaught and unstabledistort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their owndestruction.
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You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on your guardso* that you are not carriedaway by the error of unprincipledmen and fall from your ownsteadfastness,