2 Timothy 2:21

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

If a man purge himself from these ... The way this stands it seems to say, "if one purge himself from the vessels unto dishonor," but that is evidently not the meaning.

The image is better maintained if we understand "from these" to mean the babblings, and ungodliness, and eating words of the heretics denounced.[30]