This charge I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

 There are the irreverent (asebeis, G765) . Asebeis is a terrible word. It describes not indifference nor the lapse into sin. It describes "positive and active irreligion," the spirit which defiantly withholds from God that which is his right. It describes human nature "in battle array against God." 