They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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False teachers are described. Faithful ministers must oppose such in good time, that their folly being made manifest, they may go no further They had a base end in what they did; serving a worldly interest under pretence of religion: for the love of money is the root of all evil.