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.

(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.

This saying is faithful: "For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you, for he is useful to me for service.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his works,