who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.

The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains;

but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me—

But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.