{I am thankful} to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience {as my ancestors did}, when {I remember you constantly} in my prayers night and day,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

thou hast known this, that they did turn from me -- all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

may the Lord give to him to find kindness from the Lord in that day; and how many things in Ephesus he did minister thou dost very well know.

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:

It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

If a person rids himself of the common ones [i.e., the influences of evil people and qualities], he will be an instrument for [God's] honor, dedicated, suitable for use by the Master, [and] prepared for [doing] every good deed.

Run away from youthful lusts—pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those [believers] who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Moses did not meet with greater opposition from Jannes and Jambres, than truth does from men so corrupted in their mind, and so adulterated in their faith.

but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

so that the man of God will be thoroughly equipped for [doing] every good deed.

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

The coat which I did not take from Troas and which is with Carpus, get when you come, and the books, specially the papers.

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

of whom do you also beware; for greatly did he withstand our words.

and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will save [me] for his heavenly kingdom, to whom [be] the glory {forever and ever}. Amen.

Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm;