Second Letter to Timothy

For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

For this cause I suffer also these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

No soldier on service entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn't crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel,

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.