I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

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

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

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,

for which cause also these things I suffer, but I am not ashamed, for I have known in whom I have believed, and have been persuaded that he is able that which I have committed to him to guard -- to that day.

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

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

These things remind them of, testifying fully before the Lord -- not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

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

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord -- the Righteous Judge -- shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)