For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power and love and self-discipline.

So do not be ashamed to testify of our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God,

who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and the grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

but has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

For this reason I also suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.

but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me

for which I am suffering even to the point of wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

Remind them of these things, and charge them in the presence of God to avoid disputing about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

In a large house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and earthenware, and some for noble use, some for ignoble.

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome, but he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, patient when wronged,

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress.

holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.

But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all, as was that of those two men.

while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, knowing from whom you learned it,

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires,

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

In the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

But Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

At my first defense no one came to my support, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.

But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion's mouth.

Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.