Because of it I am experiencing trouble, even to the point of being chained like a criminal. However, God's word is not chained.

Do not have anything to do with foolish and stupid discussions, because you know they breed arguments.

But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those two men, their stupidity will be plain to everyone.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and found to be true, because you know from whom you learned it.

because Demas, having fallen in love with this present world, has abandoned me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

Erastus stayed in Corinth, and I left Trophimus in Miletus because he was sick.