15. Study and be eager and do your utmost to present yourself to God approved (tested by trial), a workman who has no cause to be ashamed, correctly analyzing and accurately dividing [rightly handling and skillfully teaching] the Word of Truth.
16. But avoid all empty (vain, useless, idle) talk, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness.
17. And their teaching [will devour; it] will eat its way like cancer or spread like gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus,
18. Who have missed the mark and swerved from the truth by arguing that the resurrection has already taken place. They are undermining the faith of some.