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These men are murmurers, ever bemoaning their lot. Their lives are guided by their evil passions, and their mouths are full of big, boastful words, while they treat individual men with admiring reverence for the sake of the advantage they can gain.
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But as for you, my dearly-loved friends, remember the words that before now were spoken by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ--
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how they declared to you, "In the last times there shall be scoffers, obeying only their own ungodly passions."
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These are those who cause divisions. They are men of the world, wholly unspiritual.
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But you, my dearly-loved friends, building yourselves up on the basis of your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
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