for which reason also I suffer these [things]. But [I am] not ashamed, because I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard [what] I have entrusted until that day.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me many times, and was not ashamed of my imprisonment,

but [when he] was in Rome, he diligently sought me and found [me].

May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day! And how much he served [me] in Ephesus you know very well.

No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of [everyday] life, so that he may please the one who enlisted [him].

And also if anyone competes he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

if we endure, we will also reign with [him]; if we deny [him], he also will deny us;

if we are unfaithful, he remains faithful--{he cannot deny himself}.

Therefore, if someone cleanses himself from these [things], he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.

Luke alone is with me. Take along Mark [and] bring [him] with you, because he is useful to me for ministry.

against whom you also be on guard, because he vehemently opposed our words.

But the Lord helped me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fulfilled and all the Gentiles might hear, and he rescued [me] from the lion's mouth.

Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus [because he] was sick.