for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

thou hast known this, that they did turn from me -- all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;

may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

may the Lord give to him to find kindness from the Lord in that day; and how many things in Ephesus he did minister thou dost very well know.

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

but they shall not advance any further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as theirs also did become.

the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil; may the Lord repay to him according to his works,

and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,

Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm;