For God hath not given us the Spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and sobriety.

Therefore be not thou ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel, according to the power of God, Who hath saved and called us with an holy calling,

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

No man that warreth intangleth himself in the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath inlisted him.

For Demas hath forsaken me, loving the present world, and is gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

Of whom be thou also aware; for he hath greatly withstood our words.