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

For 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 to 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 contend not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times will 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 will be manifest to 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.