I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, as without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day,

and the things which thou didst hear from me before many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, such as will be able to teach others also.

Endure hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

No one serving as a soldier entangleth himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier.

Bear in mind Jesus Christ of the seed of David, as raised from the dead, according to my gospel;

in which I suffer hardship even unto bonds as an evildoer; but the word of God is not bound.

and their word will eat as doth a canker; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth; men corrupted in their minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

But they will proceed no further; for their folly will be clearly manifest to all, as that of those men was.

For I am already about to be offered as a sacrifice, and the time of my departure is at hand.