I give thanks to God whom I worship with a pure conscience as my fathers did, when I remember you unceasingly in my prayers.

Take your share in suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.

and they may come to their senses again, and escape the snare of the devil, as they are restored to life by God to do his will.

As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these men withstand the truth; being corrupt in mind and worthless in all that concerns the faith.

But they will not get on; for their folly will be made as openly manifest to all as was that of Jannes and Jambres.

as well as the persecutions and sufferings which befell me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know all the persecutions I endured, and how the Lord delivered me out of them all!

But as for you, be always self-controlled, face hardships, do the work of a missionary, discharge all the duties of your ministry.