when I call to mind your affliction, it makes me ardently desire the exceeding pleasure I shall have in seeing you:

yet I am not ashamed, for I know in whom I have confided, and I am persuaded he is able to keep what I have committed to him against that day.

You know that I have been abandon'd by all the Asiatics, by Phygellus and Hermogenes among the rest.

As for you, my son, strenuously acquit yourself of the charge you have receiv'd from Christ Jesus.

they have deserted the faith themselves, and debauch'd the faith of others, by maintaining, "the resurrection is already past."

of which they wear the appearance, but disclaim its influence. have no intercourse with such.

But be you attach'd to the doctrine you have learnt, with which you are intrusted, considering by whom you have been instructed:

I have struggled in a glorious cause: I have finish'd my career: I have stood to the faith:

I have nothing more to do, but to receive the crown of virtue reserv'd for me, which the Lord, the just judge, will give me in that day: and not only to me, but to those also, who have long'd for his appearance.

Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.