I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.

and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,