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6:20 the deposit entrusted to you. The gospel. what is falsely called "knowledge." The false teaching addressed elsewhere in the letter. Some have thought this to be evidence that the false teaching was a form of Gnosticism. However, there is very slim evidence for this. More likely this is another instance of Paul critiquing the false teachers' "thinking" (see 1:7; 6:4-5). The false teachers may flatter themselves by labeling their teaching "knowledge," but since they reject "the truth" (i.e., the gospel; see note on 2:4), their teaching cannot be true knowledge.