Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

But you should be sober-minded about everything, [willing to] endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.

Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:

For God hath not given to us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of soberness of mind.

Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not to debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.

in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a change of mind to a knowledge of the truth,