It is a truth highly to be believed, and worthy to be received by all, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners:---of whom I am one of the chief.

This charge I commit to thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which before came on thee, that by them thou mightest war a good warfare,

who is willing that all men should be saved, and therefore come to the knowledge of the truth.

These things I write unto thee, hoping to come to thee shortly.

For bodily exercise profiteth little, but piety is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come:

Till I come attend to reading, to exhortation, and teaching.