For we know that if our tent--that earthly body which is now our home--is taken down, we have a house of God's building, a home not made by hands, imperishable, in Heaven.

Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.

To stir

This, dear friends, is my second letter to you. In both of them I have tried, by appealing to your remembrance, to arouse your better feelings.

And that is my reason for reminding you to stir into flame that gift of God, which is yours through your ordination at my hands.

By

I shall, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the Truth that you now hold.

General references

Happy will that servant be whom his master, when he comes home, shall find doing this.