2 Timothy 3 (vi)

The spirits of temptation do not creep into those places that oppose the Gospel, but into places where Christians and the devout are to be found. They crawl after such people, entering one house here and another one there, and they insinuate themselves everywhere until their poison has been spread into every single corner in the dwellings of our people. Why do they not go to the godless and confess their teaching freely and publicly, as we have done with the grace of God? Because they are tender martyrs who fear for their skin and run away from danger! Learn from this what devout preachers have to expect in life. In addition to being persecuted by an evil and ungrateful world, they will experience that everything that they have built with such trouble and hard work gets torn down by these false spirits.

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