[Elsie]

My point was that taking verse 20 out of context and using it to refer to people of faith is completely out of line with the previous 10 verses.

Oh?

If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.

This sure sounds like 'people of faith' to me!

[Safrguns]

>>> This sure sounds like ‘people of faith’ to me!

Sure it does... if you start at that verse.

That was my point.

You have to understand who “THEY” are in context.

You cannot get that unless you read the previous verses, or better yet as you posted, from the beginning of the chapter.