I thank God, whom I serve from my ancestors with a pure conscience, that I mention you incessantly in my prayers night and day,

For God gave us not a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but endure affliction with us in the gospel according to the power of God,

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his purpose and grace given us in Christ Jesus from eternity,

for which cause I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know in whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep my trust to that day.

May the Lord show mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains,

And if a man contends as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he contends lawfully.

in which I suffer even to chains as an evil doer; but the word of God is not bound.

if we believe not he continues faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

Call to mind these things, charging [men] before the Lord not to debate about words, to no profit, to the subversion of the hearers.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a workman that will not be put to shame, rightly dividing the word of truth.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but those also of wood and clay, and some for honor and some for dishonor;

and the servant of the Lord must not contend, but must be gentle to all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

At my first defense no one stood by me, but all forsook me; may it not be set to their account;