But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.