but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

(the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Now in a large house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

From now on, there is stored up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.