Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Pray that I may declare it clearly, as I should.

Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will give you insight into all things.

who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.