but has been made manifest now by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has annulled death, and brought to light life and incorruptibility by the glad tidings;

For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

No one going as a soldier entangles himself with the affairs of life, that he may please him who has enlisted him as a soldier.

But this know, that in the last days difficult times shall be there;

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.

At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them.