Verses:
1, 2:
Let not those be feared who wish to prevail by their own intelligence and by means of artifices.
[3]
3-5:
It is described how they make evil to appear like good, and make themselves appear powerful,
[3]
6, 7:
whereas the Lord alone has power.
[16]
8, 9:
To do this they abuse the Word;
[3]
10:
but the Lord alone reigns,
[16]
11:
and those who do not acknowledge Him vanish.
[4]
12, 13:
All truth is from the Lord.
[16]
14, 15:
Self-intelligence amounts to nothing at all; it will perish.
[2, 3]
16:
It is otherwise with a church that trusts in the Lord.
[11]
17, 18:
The preparation of these during the destruction of the former.
[11, 3]
19-21:
Grief because of the backsliding of the church from the Lord, and its vastation.
[3, 11, 4]
22:
Their end.
[3]
23-25:
Prayer to the Lord that they may not perish together with the evil.
[11]